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Floris
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Shaun, in order to run so many sites you simply have to have the experience, and a clear goal as to what you want to achieve, together with a great team of staff you can get there. It went fine for years. And we had some negative years as well. But we got together many times and worked out how to get back on track. However, it didnt' result in the sites going from 25 to 50% or higher, and at some point the stress it created, the unhappy feeling that comes with it and the resources it requires just made me go 'oh f* it' various times, with the health of my parents ahead of me and the other 15 things on my plate, it's just not worth it anymore. Time to say "we had a good run" and move on.
Closing the site hurts the users, but not as much as it hurts me. After all, they dedicated time to it, while we dedicated our life to it. In what shape or form the site continue after November is undecided yet, maybe we will throw it up in read-only mode, maybe we will forward traffic to one of my other still running projects, maybe someone buys the site (declined the last 4 offers from yesterday btw, they were a joke) and maybe we will null the domains and I will just disappear from the net completely as far as online communities are concerned.
Closing the site hurts the users, but not as much as it hurts me. After all, they dedicated time to it, while we dedicated our life to it. In what shape or form the site continue after November is undecided yet, maybe we will throw it up in read-only mode, maybe we will forward traffic to one of my other still running projects, maybe someone buys the site (declined the last 4 offers from yesterday btw, they were a joke) and maybe we will null the domains and I will just disappear from the net completely as far as online communities are concerned.