One possible reason I’ve read is that the people moderating it have had their identities leaked, so imagine being the person responsible for banning 4chan users and now also they know who you are, seems like a very unappealing thing to volunteer for.
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why would it go away completely? Why wouldn’t they plug the hack and continue on as they were before? Getting hacked doesn’t typically kill a service unless there was data deleted and no recovery option available.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 days ago
They’re on the clearnet. Their identities are already known…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 days ago
They would need to rewrite it again, the release source code showed about of security flaws. If they’re just re upped it again it would be taken down by someone the sake day.
drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
The current owner is not and has not ever been interested in maintaining it. He bought it to squeeze it of its worth and now that it’s suddenly going to cost a lot of money to bring back he probably just won’t.
bilb@lem.monster 5 days ago
That does leave the possibility of selling it to someone who does want to restore it.