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AllTheFallen's shutdown explained by the site's owner.
TL;DR #1: Legal pressure, though not direct. Monetary costs reaching unsustainable levels. Site users getting out of hand. Vistarrr recommends keeping any new sites niche and thinking hard about what kind of community you want to foster.
TL;DR #2: Vistarrr was away from ATF so the site admins and mods made a backup. They reinstated a mod who was previously removed to help do this by way of adding a backdoor. Vistarrr returns and tells people that the backup is dangerous and is assured it has been deleted. Said mod lied about deleting it, is unhinged, and chimps out, threatening to leak the entire thing. Any ATF clones that pop up after the website shuts down are NOT to be trusted.
While the active devs will surely find a new site to host their mods (Apparently RoriWalrus is opening a modding section because of this?) I'm worried about the non-active ones.
@Ronnie21093 @rlier23 @Kyonko802 we're going back to the multi-part zip files haha
But man isn't the 3rd party link meta, pixel drain. Mega, gofile at this point.
It's probably worth adding shakes fist at ai bubble making self hosting with decent storage prohibitively expensive.