Dark_Tzitzimine posted:
He could've passed the torch to someone else or even sell the thing. I'm sure many people would've jumped at the chance.
Except...no, not necessarily. Being an old-style webmaster and managing servers and whatnot is a huge amount of work and requires a lot of time and energy. If you wanna run a website like E-hentai you have to be dedicated to it. Selling a website to a new webmaster would be pretty reasonable ten years ago, when independently-owned websites were commonplace, but nowadays with 90% of the content on the internet being created and hosted on like 4 or 5 sites, nobody wants to bother anymore. Believe me, I've personally witnessed the death of a 10+ year old forum site and it went down something like this. Site upkeep got too expensive and too time-consuming, so they figured it was best to close the doors.
He was the admin, yes, but he had a staff working with him developing new features for the site and optimizing it. I don't think it would be unfeasible to leave one of them in charge.
Maybe he didn't want to end up like the original owner of Fakku who lost his website, vision and etc because he trusted too much to others.
As for thankless or not, I don't think the donations were exactly low... But of course there's always that part of the community that are complete shit, but here's a life lesson.... They're everywhere, not just in the forums of a manga website.
last edited at Jul 28, 2019 12:57PM