William Osman and Allen Pan commented on it in a recent-ish podcast, Allen used to run a space. Basically, the politics of the situation is impossible. Maintai

William Osman and Allen Pan commented on it in a recent-ish podcast, Allen used to run a space. Basically, the politics of the situation is impossible. Maintaining a space like that costs an incredible amount of money and time. You'd hope that the community could pitch in together, but you always end up with a single person being the primary patron, spending their own time and money, while others abuse the space and the machines for themselves. The only spaces that seem to have survived are ones that gets large grants from some institution like a university or local government, and therefore can be run like a business, with leadership and staffing.