I cannot share your respect for the webmasters, unfortunately. They have shown a complete lack of interest in maintaining the site or doing anything involving it and have pretty much left all the decisions to the moderators, who are forced to take on roles they were most likely not prepared for. They also seem to have not given any input on anything the site has been doing recently, which is not a good sign. One of the times you desperately need webmasters/owners of a site or network is when your debating legalities, and they were not here for that; they're input would've been invaluable. But they were not, so the mods need to do things that are way outside their job descriptions.

Moderation:
I think this is a very interesting topic, but please let's not name call.

Hi, both Richard and I have kids in the age 2 to 4. We have jobs. We try to create nice things. We pay for the hosting of AudioGames.net and fix and update things that are not working because we think it's important that AudioGames.net exists.
The PHP 5 to 7 upgrade took me a week of work. Time that was not paid for. I did not complain.
Sorry, I don't have time to read all posts on this website, because I really don't have time to do so, because I teach people how to make the world a better place (for instance by learning them to create AudioGames).
Does this make me a shmuck?

Maybe it's something worth discussing on the staff list?
Both me and Carter have experience with the software aspect and would be happy to help handle any issues.
Also let me thank you for your time, and thanks for keeping this site going. it is a fantastic resource, and I think people take it for granted.
You are certainly not a shmuck.

Personally, I've always been very happy that Sander and Richard built  this website, hosted it free of charge and maintained it over such a long period through floods fires and catastrophes, including complete backups, not to mention trusting me the way they have over the years.

Could matters be improved? Well of course they could, but that's true of anything, and looking around at the state of the internet now as compared to what it was in 2004, the number of websites that have gone belly  up or been destroyed by spambot attacks speaks for itself and just how well audiogames.net has weathered  through the changes.

Thanks again.

Also, Thanks for this. Without you and Richard, Our lives would be that much more boring, and new devs, like sam, Mason, Fallingsqurrel and outofsight games would have such a hard time promoting their games. Again, thanks for that. I think, all of us, including myself take you 2 for granted. I really am sorry. Don't rage quit on the sight, and pull the plug after seeing such nasty comments from myself and others.

As anybody said here, thanks for you're hard work to the site. Hope it gets functional for ever!

Hi,
@15: Agreed. this would be a great idea because then Richard and Sander would have a lot of work taken off their shoulders.
I, too, am grateful for the creation and maintenance of this site.

I agree with Ethin here. Keeping the site running and mostly bug free is one thing, but keeping up to date, listening to user and moderator feetback is something completely different and in this partt, both webmasters have been failing the last few years.

Greetings Moritz

Login issue seems fixed ATM. I was living that problem too, I managed to login without any errors now.

Here is my official stance on this. I admit I was harsh for calling them Shmucks, But even though we appreciate what you do, it would be better if  you give the site to someone who has more time. You can't just abandon the ship with a warning. What you did is unleaderly, and even though you pay for the sight, and we are really greatful for that, that just one part of it. So many issues have come up, and we cant fix it because well, there is nobody to fix it. You knoww what's funny? It took me CALLING a shmuck just for him to post on the sight, for maybe since a year. I've been on this sight for a year now, and recently got in to it, and reading through posts, i never saw anything from him.

@6 No, it doesn't make you a schmuck. Most of the issues we are facing right now are just things that could be fixed, and aren't. I definitely understand not being able to put in that commitment, and never would blame you or anyone else for not having the time and / or energy, especially after 15 years. But, it would be a shame to see AgNet just fall apart because of errors that keep cropping up, which is where all of my concerns come into play. That's why I'm an advocate of letting others help on the back end type of thing.

I'm definitely appreciative of what you guys and all the staff have done in keeping this site up, and adding to it and making it a place to congregate over the years. That's why I and many others feel the way we do about this, simply because this site has a lot of history behind it. It's less about bashing you guys and more about trying to find a way to keep some sort of sysadmin maintenance going on to keep AgNet alive.