Yet all of my favorite early web places have died out unless they could pivot into a business. I don’t want someone’s precarious, eternal charity as the only thing keeping something alive. It’s in my best interest that they make a living from it if I care about the service at all.
Except these things began as hobbies before business became involved at all.
It’s a message board for book lovers ffs, pre web people used to build things themselves, at their own expense, just for fun.