I think that a separate open-source blockchain explorer project would be a good idea instead of gridcoinstats fully open-sourcing itself, after all it's @sc-steemit's business.
It's possible that with some uplifting of the gridcoin codebase we could simply use: https://insight.is/
No up-voting of the idea, though. Boo! Come on, you know you want to support it. What are we but not dreamers here in the GRC community.
What's that? Downvote you say? :P