/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11972748
>Speaking from experience, maintaining a site with downloads like Fuwanovel was, is painfully hard. In comparison, maintaining a community site is relatively simple. However, at the same time, we will inevitably see a slight fall in community participation as those who came just for the downloads go awol.
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>Nonetheless, since I never used Fuwanovel for downloads, I don't consider that aspect to be important. I'm glad the forums are still up, and I'm glad that the central figures - whoever they happen to be - have the enthusiasm necessary to maintain the community. Aaeru's decision to leave forever probably doesn't surprise anyone, as she hadn't been present for the better part of half a year, and even before that her participation in the community was rapidly decreasing.
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>Good communities evolve in order to survive, and I hope that Fuwanovel will be one of those.
-Clephas, March 4th 2014
http://forums.fuwanovel.org/index.php?/topic/3694-thank-you-tay-and-co/?hl=aaeru#entry75203

I asked around on their IRC, but couldn't get any further information such as why she left.

>>11972757
She has had keyaids since well before starting Fuwanovel.

>>11972781
>We don't know anything except that she is fine. She disappeared from Fuwa/twitter/etc for some reason but doesn't seem to have serious IRL issues.
-Down, February 16th 2014
http://forums.fuwanovel.org/index.php?/topic/3540-what-happened-to-aaeru/?p=69566

This person is not a fuwa admin or anything as far as I know, so I don't know exact source, but if it weren't true a mod would probably have corrected them.

Speaking of Aaeru, is she dead? She doesn't seem to have been on the internet for half a year now.

You guys, what if

what if

Aaeru was never lying about being terminally ill, and she actually did die a month ago?