So long story short, I used to run a webzine and used a theme from Themeforest and a couple of addons from Codecanyon, but due to health issues I had to shut it down after a couple of years.

Fast forward 5ish years and I'm eager to get back into it. However, when I log back on to the mentioned sites, all of the themes and addons I bought back then are removed from the marketplace, and theres no easy way of contacting the authors. I can still download them all except for one, but none of them are being updated.

So my question is, how do you guys deal with that? Is that just something you have to accept? It doesn't seem very viable for long-term projects.

PS. I even made sure I bought themes and addons from big and popular authors back in the day to avoid this problem, but guess that doesn't change much.