Thanks,
@sunni, for your reply. I'm pretty new here; I wasn't aware that it was well known that there was only one admin -- I see your avatar says "administrator," and I've also seen members
@Admin and
@rollitup whose avatars say the same, so that looks like at least three. But maybe a member designated as "administrator" is not an administrator in the sense of the website.
In any case, I think you summed it up nicely with:
in any event, we have told everyone the amount we wish to tell people
Okay, fair enough. In truth, I am really not all that interested in what happened to the site -- that is very thankfully not my problem.
But I do have what I think is a legitimate concern: Is the continued availability of RIU subject to the whims and wellbeing of a single person? In other words, presumably someone pays the web-hosting bill when it comes around, collects the advertising checks, pays the person who is currently working on the server (or does it him or herself). If that person loses interest, gets sick, or gets hit by a truck crossing the street, is it all over once the bills are overdue?
I hope nobody will take offence at my suggesting that that might be the case; I am hoping to hear an assurance that it's not. When the site was down I poked around the internet hoping to hear some news of what was going on. What I found was a rollitup.org Facebook page that hadn't been updated since early December; some members were posting there looking for news. No information on that page, which can't be in any way tied to the RIU site, is what really made me start to worry.
Sorry for going on, and I will shut the hell up in just a moment. I just want to add that, aside from being the best forum of it's type, which would be sorely missed, there is such a great
wealth of information on this site, that it would be a real loss if anything happened to it. I feel like we should petition the Library of Congress to archive everything here as a national treasure (well, maybe not
everything... ). No other site can compare.
So what I am saying is that if RIU isn't as stable and secure as it should be, I'd like to talk about it now, while we have a forum to talk in. If we lose it, we'll just be a bunch of people scattered across other forums griping about how much they suck...
Thanks again for your earlier reply, and for all your work.