If you read the post on his site (the one that redirects to the discord server), the admin laments that certain egos in the community get on a soapbox and mask their own selfish desires as doing things ‘for the community’. You can see how it is then extraordinarily ironic that this admin shuts down the site and speaks for the ‘community’ about the archiving issue. He is effectively taking the ball and going home, flexing the last remnants of control in some hilarious ego power play. The fallout with Reshax, and anyone else reaching out to him in good faith, about continuing supporting the people he hosted on his forums (read: leeched off of and now apparently represents their interests) all but confirms this. There is no logic to it. But the author of this article is trying to rationalize the decision and present it in the most painfully neutral way to not step on anyone’s toes.

The author isn’t asking the most obvious question: Why the hell should the privilege of “privacy” be afforded to an admin/”community” who built their reputation and site off of decompiling and reverse engineering copyrighted and restricted materials? THAT is the most ironic part about this whole ordeal!