[urbandw311er]

Kudos for the great site and ethos. You still seem pretty buoyed by the experience. Ultimately, I found the article pretty depressing. Your initial free offering with a good UX and relatively little ongoing maintenance was destroyed by an army of criminals. It ended up wiping out weeks of your time developing increasingly complex cat and mouse techniques. Ultimately resulting in you abandoning most of the free plan altogether.

Kinda sad that this is what the online world has become.

And we just put up with it.

Imagine if walking down the road each day was like this – people lining up ready to swindle you or manhandle you in order to steal your things. There would be outrage. But online we have just sort of reached a weird state of acceptance I guess.