I don’t think I had a bad reason to do this, as in my opinion, self-hosting is mostly limited by your Internet connection, and like most of the US I was stuck on a sh*tty DOCSIS uplink with 12Mbps upload speed, and didn’t feel that I could self-host images with that kind of speed. Hence, use Cloudinary and Cloudflare to lift most of the bandwidth requirement away.
The problem with this is that we never actually paid for Cloudinary. In fact, at some point I made a script to literally automatically create Cloudinary trial accounts, and then swap through them as they kept getting banned, like whack-a-mole. Cedar did this too, since they never actually deleted the images. Well…
PF2M discovered in mid-2020 that Cloudinary had suddenly started DELETING alllllllll images from such unpaid trial accounts, like what he had been using on banama.club. Needless to say, this was really devastating to hear about.
In August of 2023 when I was still getting everything back, I decided to host the Closedverse site on my machine. Occasionally, a handful of images would show up, but only on my phone and nowhere else, and not just any images, they had to be recent. I couldn’t get this to happen when I tried it earlier today.

Q: What now?
The logical next step, other than what I’m going to do with all of the personal data, would be to share the love and release some of the Miiverse and clone related stuff I got back, right?
* I should release Openverse^2, but it never had version control for some reason, so I have to aggregate different versions and make fake Git commits for them so you can see it over time. If enough people ask me to do this, I’ll go ahead and dedicate a few days to it.
* Likewise for any of my Cedar and Openverse forks.
* I can also release the closed.pizza source, after stripping sensitive information from it…
* Oh, I should really release the Closedverse archive source, too…
… All of this depends on how much time, I hate to say that I don’t care enough to have an immediate urge to release any of this. As always, please let me know what you think, though.