It was an accessory to other sites that kept adding features that rendered Retrospring useless to a lot of its userbase, maybe. Plus, the online anime communities tend to have "falling outs" because there's like alt-rights and alt-lites crossing paths with a bunch of queer leftists. So people find out their online friends who can swing it, because they're straight and "nonpolitical" or w/e, are friends online with a nazi, and things get tense. They spread out into different anime NERD communities, and leave old ones behind. When favorite and popular users lose interest it causes a chain reaction. Especially with this really fragile setup where the majority of the questions come from 2 or 3 people, and a lot of us (I mean me), don't bother to regularly ask questions and try to keep the place active. Not to mention, just trying to think of questions the really loyal users who are still here have not yet answered is a lil bit of a struggle. Then there was the hassle involved when the sites shut down and the userbase moves to a similar platform. I understand not wanting to waste time acclimating to it when it's likely to go the same way as the others.

Also, the toxic user(s) demand and get a lot of attention. They become celebrities, so of course the same one(s) stick around. More OK people stop being active, and you end up with more and more dickotry and less and less content you actually enjoy seeing and reading. it's easy to abandon the place under those circumstances? You could argue that's just anywhere online, I guess. But because the community is so small here it's just too easy to shift its entire focus to one pos for unforeseen amounts of time. I find that really boring, and it's kind of maddening... So maybe other people have.