Spike to Leave RHDO

After a talk with the mod team and reading trough the comments here and elsewhere it became clear that if this site is going to have a future it can’t be with me on it. Under any capacity. I started this site to streamline the process of uploading romhacks, I think, by listening to the feedback from the few people that actually tried it, that I did a good job.

However, it’s worthless if people don’t want to use it.

And the main reason is me, given the choice to either keep developing a site that most won’t touch or leave, I choose to leave. Thus removing the main issue. I think leaving is the best solution for the site.

WordPress Criticism:

I also want to address some concerns I read online about the site not been worth it because it’s just a WordPress site. Let me tell you for what is worth, that WordPress powers 43% of the internet, there are huge websites running WordPress like https://techcrunch.com/ or https://www.nytimes.com/

WordPress is also an excellent content management system, ideal for a site like this, it can (and we are) categorizing everything in the most efficient way with custom post types, taxonomies and fields, which can be used to filter and sort the hacks by.

If ran properly, it can handle hundreds of thousands of entries, much more than what RHDN collected in 20 years! and still load incredibly quick.

Just because there are bad WordPress sites doesn’t mean you can’t make a good one.

The future:

BenjaminCM who has been developing a hacks review system for the site will become the sole admin of the site. In this transition period I will give him access to the server to make a backup of the files and database so he can host it on his own server, then we’ll flip the IP at DNS level.  I’ll transfer the domain name to his registrar. I’ll hand over social media accounts and the Discord server and quit it. Finally when he has full control over everything and everything is working as it is now, I can be removed from the site for good.

It’s a transition period that will take some days to get done. Under his control the site gains a great guy as admin, much more knowledgeable and capable than I am.

I’m fine with this, I set to do something and I did it, there’s no point on keep pushing to be part of a scene I don’t belong to.

Thanks for your time.

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