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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.
Yako ヤコ 
@Yako @Meemoo i don't think the goal was to attract pedophiles necessarily, but to be an open "free speech" kind of platform and that naturally attracted pedos who couldn't talk about that kind of stuff anywhere else. it's the classic situation of letting yourself be taken over by people who do not give a single fuck about you, just because you want to uphold an ideal. happens all the time.
that's a good faith interpretation though, of course. regardless, i'm not sad about it getting shut down.
if you want a really good alternative, roriwalrus seems like it is the best spot. they've learned from ATF's mistakes.
some of the regulars there actively uploaded and archived mods that were paywalled and/or quickly scrubbed by the OG modder but their stuff was only available on the thread itself (lists that did get made were highly outdated and unmaintained)
I hope they go somewhere that doesn't glow the fuck up
