thinking about shutting down a site I made for a videogame when I was 16-17 years old. got it up to over 100k verified users in a couple years, it was attacked by russian hackers and DDoSers, script injected, shown on a Twitch livestream by Lirik many years ago around 2014 and collapsed my website from traffic which initially helped it take off and taught me about query caching, firewalls, docker, php, laravel, bootstrap, etc. it did its purpose it landed me my first job in tech before i graduated high school. spent my entire summer break when I made staying up until 4am coding it and learning how to protect it, advertising it on steam forums, etc. good times. but it's time to shut that puppy down its now an outdated project and resume piece. godspeed