I know that there were TRF'ers that won't miss Newsbot. Interestingly enough, I think that the number of people viewing had gone up the past few months, but it might be because the TRF website was computing things differently.
I also noticed that at about the time Newsbot disappeared since yesterday my number of postings jumped up, so obviously the TRF care-takers have done some website updating. I first thought that Newsbot may have been rolled into the Watering Hole, but now that I check around I think that Newsbot with it's posting may have been completely wiped out, because it looks like it's postings are all gone.