Ugh. This sucks. It's not just the forums, it's EVERYTHING. Including the booru and the game mods.

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Vistarr wasn't the one who brought him back. Othe site staff did, when Vistarr went MIA for a few months for personal reasons. They asked him to make a site back up in case it was needed, as a contingency. But then Vistarr came back, and t nations between John and other site staff got bad enough several people threatened to quit if he stayed. So he was removed.

He threatened to leak the data then, unless he got reinstated and everyone who got him booted for fired. But Vistarr countered that he'd just nuke the site instead. John backed down. But, apparently, he got into a shit flinging contest with someone else on the staff he'd been dating and shit in the DMs that leaked were bad enough Vistarr wanted to ban John. But John, again, threatened to release the backups if banned. So, Vistarr's going nuclear and closing the site to try and resolve the problem. There's no reason to fight over the data if there's no site to fight about, is his logic.

And apparently the forums were almost out of server space anyway, which was going to trigger a different crisis in a few months. Between that, and it sounding like Vistarr is just tired, I'm guessing he just wants out.