It's quite unbelievable that the reason was they could not meet the costs of running it, while not being able to collect donations or help raise funds to keep t

It's quite unbelievable that the reason was they could not meet the costs of running it, while not being able to collect donations or help raise funds to keep the lights on. Technically the ownership and administration of their servers could have been distributed all across the world, which would have helped with the staff availability to a good extent.