now that cohost is dying can we finally admit that staff were fucking morons and they are entirely to blame for this site shutting down because they would basically plug their ears whenever anyone would give reasonable criticisms of this site and how it operates because they were so utterly convinced they were right and their 'anti-numbers message' was the right path forward even though there is a fuckin reason why platforms like cohost don't exist on the internet anymore (because they are not sustainable - if you're an artist or whatever, why would you join a site that has no way for you to properly see how many views your work gets, or how many people share it, or how many people like it?)
acting edgy and uwu cutesy 'we dont wike how big bussiness is run!' while trying to run a site that has to pay expensive hosting fees is like...how to destroy your website 101 and none of the staff seemed to grasp that concept.