When you name your website rude noisy violent. It dooms you to failing inevitably! Wicked people seem to get the upper hand for a while and they get a chance to rejoice and gloat over the people that they stomp on.
People have left for many reasons in recent years. Some of them are: Lack of oversight of YA by Yahoo shortly before the sale to Verizon Lack of oversight by Verizon after they bought Yahoo Chronic glitches and issues with the site that have never been fixed Influx of trolls and site abusers, going unchecked, due to no YA Team Massive spambot attacks in 2018 The temporary addition of a captcha feature (to weed out spambots) annoyed some users enough to cause them to leave YA
imo only.....It is a private business who has made a decision after much deliberation I am sure.
......................................... New laws are coming out that will hold social media sites responsible ( libel) to clean up what is posted ( racism. slander, abuse ,porn etc...FAST or face fines = $$$$$$$$$$$