I'm convinced everyone on here has not actually read the financial updates or the financial analysis and is running on goodwill and hope alone. I think staff has tried to keep this website alive out of genuine love, but I think they deeply fucked up in the first place by making a website with a rich friend's money with no plan for sustainability already set up. keeping this website up, in my opinion, is prolonging the inevitable and is going to lose them even more money
I love this website but I can't ignore how much its not sustainable. even their plans to reach this do not add up: how will eggbux and artists alley work when 1. payment processors are waging war on sexuality 2. staff has 4 members to build and manage this all, especially in 6 months?
it's been very discouraging seeing the members of this website be blinded to the truth of the situation by optimism and sheer hope. cohost at the end of the day is a buisiness, and the fact people will skin you alive for criticizing it as such does not make me feel good about being on here
honestly, the only course of action here seems to be pulling the plug and spending their remaining time on exporting and reconnection tools they mentioned. cutting their losses, not going sunk cost fallacy. this isn't pessimism, this is realism, and no one here seems to get that
