[omnicognate]

As I said I don't blame him in the slightest for selling it. Did I give the impression I did?

I'm counteracting two claims I see repeated a lot on this:

1. That he wouldn't have written it without the expectation of being paid. He did in fact do so, so that's obviously nonsense.

2. That without the NYT buying it it wouldn't have survived. It would, even if the original dev no longer wanted to be involved. Any number of people would gladly host it.

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I'm just counteracting the implication that running a website with millions of daily users is a simple and easy thing that someone would be happy to do for fun. I don't think that's the case. Creating a game is fun. Dealing with millions of people is not fun.