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Hi everyone, thanks for your patience and concern.
A few months ago my patience for running communities came to an end when I realized the time and money I was spending on it simply didn't make sense to me anymore. I enjoy spending time with my wife and daughter more than I do managing a forum, and because I had to spend time managing the forum it left very little time for me to expand the site with the ideas I had. I took stock of what I'd done so far, what there still was to do and how quickly I was progressing, and it just became an unpleasant use of my time and resources.
Rather than going the route Mop did a couple of years ago and announce its abandonment, leaving the site to die, I simply disabled it. The assumption was that anyone motivated enough to want to purchase the site would come out of the woodwork more quickly, and thankfully I was correct.
Snoke bought the site sometime around December, and everything was fine up until about a month ago when his family was involved in a tragedy. He reached out to me for help after those he purchased it with flaked on him, so we came to an arrangement, and I'm once again the owner.
I do not want to get involved in running the forum again, though, only to burn out on it again in three months. Instead, I'm appointing three moderators to run the day-to-day operations of the community so that I can focus on building out other parts of the site whenever I have the time, something I can do off-and-on without continuing to harm the continuity of the community.
And so there we are - No conspiracies, no Pakistani spammers and no threats to my life. Just a dad who altered his priorities and tried to do what made sense at the time.
Hope everyone is well, and glad to see that Paranormalis is still killing it
A few months ago my patience for running communities came to an end when I realized the time and money I was spending on it simply didn't make sense to me anymore. I enjoy spending time with my wife and daughter more than I do managing a forum, and because I had to spend time managing the forum it left very little time for me to expand the site with the ideas I had. I took stock of what I'd done so far, what there still was to do and how quickly I was progressing, and it just became an unpleasant use of my time and resources.
Rather than going the route Mop did a couple of years ago and announce its abandonment, leaving the site to die, I simply disabled it. The assumption was that anyone motivated enough to want to purchase the site would come out of the woodwork more quickly, and thankfully I was correct.
Snoke bought the site sometime around December, and everything was fine up until about a month ago when his family was involved in a tragedy. He reached out to me for help after those he purchased it with flaked on him, so we came to an arrangement, and I'm once again the owner.
I do not want to get involved in running the forum again, though, only to burn out on it again in three months. Instead, I'm appointing three moderators to run the day-to-day operations of the community so that I can focus on building out other parts of the site whenever I have the time, something I can do off-and-on without continuing to harm the continuity of the community.
And so there we are - No conspiracies, no Pakistani spammers and no threats to my life. Just a dad who altered his priorities and tried to do what made sense at the time.
Hope everyone is well, and glad to see that Paranormalis is still killing it
