This website cannot exist without user support. Back in the day, this might've been $100/mo all expenses included. These days, to run this sort of shit, you need to buy the infrastructure and that's not cheap. The subnet is $1500/yr, the rack is $500/mo. Those two expenses alone make up the bulk of my month to month outgoing cashflow. It's not possible to manage a site like this, keep it up, and work a full time job at the same time. It's not even feasible because I can't get gainful employment while my name is associated with the site.
It's so frustrating seeing people building things out of good faith and having them torn down by their own audience because it doesn't meet some strange purity test. 9chan isn't good enough for the 8chan diaspora specifically because I run it. NP2 isn't good enough because Dick runs it. Taking money through Dick's platform must inherently mean there's a literal cabal conspiring to protect his personal interests. Like fuck off. What's even the point of building things for people in this corner of the Internet if everything you do is tainted by some intangible and unforgivable original sin?