I only occasionally do stuff on Twitter, respond to emails, and arrange/do interviews and the podcast. Yet I find I spend almost as much time on that as I do on the forum. And it has to fit in somewhere alongside work I get paid for, and frankly, non-monetary stuff that is more important (family, relationships etc). I think it's important that people recognise that this stuff gets done, and acknowledge that it is being done all the time. Daniel doesn't need to be here explaining the UA to some noob in order to be considered 'active'. He's actively paying for the site. He's actively promoting and running the society. He's actively retrieving a treasure-trove of previously inaccessible FE material and making it available online.
I know you guys don't feel it as immediately or interact with it as personally, but all this stuff is a lot more important for the Flat Earth Society than anything I or any other mod does here. We need mods, and we need members. But the society has to be more than an efficiently administrated forum, and right now that 'more' is Daniel and everything he does.
When Daniel was inactive, it was a problem, as he has acknowledged on several occasions. But he wasn't really any less active on the forum at that time. He's always been hands-off when it comes to the forum, and I have always seen that as a good thing. This has never been "Daniel's Flat Earth Society", and we have never seen him loom as a personality in an unhealthy way. It's a really good thing, and I wish people would stop equating posting frugally with inactivity.