The RuneClan developer did have some tweets up recently regarding the issue, believing it is potentially relating to fetching the data from the RS website. Those tweets are at https://twitter.com/Rune_Clan if you haven't already seen them.
If Jagex were to make their own tracking system of some sort, I'd expect there would also be an entire overhaul of the clan pages that already exist - which could make it a large project. I also expect that any solution would end up as a 1 size fits all kind of thing, which might work well for one clan, but another clan might want something slightly different, and that always makes things tricky too. I wouldn't be opposed to them doing that though if it were to come to it, as long as the public facing APIs also stay available to not break existing sites that are still working.
The clan I am in uses RuneClan for some tracking, but we also wrote our own custom tracker to handle other parts that were specific for our clan. That tracker continues to function without any breaking issues (we have less 'moving parts' compared to other fansites such as Runeclan that offer a service like that), though we have noticed some requests to the API taking much longer to complete than they used to, which I expect is one of the things RuneClan is seeing.
03-Jul-2019 13:16:42
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