Sooooo ... I've considered myself persona non grata here since the privating and my departure.

But I think in light of recent developments, I should speak up also. I'm not willing to just slink away and subjugate you and me and all of us. I still believe in what we are doing, even if I won't be a mod anymore or actively participating.

I think our host is looking for a reason to get rid of us now that we have proven to be not-Drama and more work than expected. WPD and Cringetopia also proved to be a lot of work for them, but especially WPD since they have a brand/image they want to maintain. Cringetopia pulled the plug on themselves, but apparently WPD got taken over unwillingly.

I paid for our site resources until January 2023, and our domains are paid for until June 2023. I have no problem paying for our site until June 2023, as a nice and even boundary. I have been holding off giving any extra money until we see our site actualized. I know better than to tip a vendor for their services before they deliver. I can afford to throw away setup fees and take an L, but I'm not giving another dime until we get what we've been promised.

It's unprofessional to offer services, and then come back weeks later and try to strong-arm and gaslight customers into believing they were wrong for asking/accepting. True colors have been shown. It's not LGBDTT's fault for requesting, it's theirs for over-promising and not delivering. I don't care what the reasons are.

I've been willing to help every step of the way, and have been patient and understanding until we were shunned and silenced.

The dev I have been working with regularly is awesome (Snakes), but he got tasked with everything while his "bosses" abandoned him. He is also not a project manager and shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place. He promised things he and they couldn't guarantee, and I suspect he didn't even realize it. If Aev and Carp were in charge then they should have been there from the start and stated what can and cannot be done. That way NONE OF US would be sitting here with our thumbs up our asses with our main dev so overloaded that he has to ignore everyone.

I think we should still utilize the site as-is, but prepare to abandon ship and be on our own after the hosting expires. I don't know how to guarantee we can get the domains back, and I know creating a site on our own will take a lot of work and expertise. I don't know how it will happen or work. But I think we have nearly a year to figure it out.

I'm in if you are.

EDIT, now that I am catching up after writing this comment:

We have now been given what we were promised for launch to you all (flairs and notifications of bad words). So we do have the bare minimum to go public and can open up the site to you and anyone else. I don't believe anything else will happen after this.