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The lack of the seriousness/professionalism of the postmortem seemed odd to me too. So, okay, what is this site?

> KeepTheScore is an online software for scorekeeping. Create your own scoreboard for up to 150 players and start tracking points. It's mostly free and requires no user account.

And also:

> Sat Sep 5, 2020, Running Keepthescore.co costs around 171 USD each month, whilst the revenue is close to zero (we do make a little money by building custom scoreboards now and then). This is an unsustainable situation which needs to be fixed – we hope this is understandable! To put it another way: Keepthescore.co needs to start making money to continue to exist.

https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/monetizing-keepthescore/

So okay, it's basically a hobby site, for a service that most users probably won't really mind losing 7 hours of data, and that has few if any paying customers.

That context makes it make a little bit more sense.



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