@0xf0 they went from a mod team to a sole mod because the originator didn't agree with a mod team decision, then within a week the originator hit overload and declared they were shuttering the instance.
As this corner of the net grows, every problem we've seen 'back in the day' will inevitably crop up. Human nature, hacked servers, disk failures, etc. Everything centralization "did better" will have to be solved a new way, or fail at decentralizing long term regardless of the technology.