There has been a negative attitude permeating through the community since before we moved to MCC. At the time this was a small fraction and not really a major issue. However, imo, without the broad coverage of TWC this attitude grew and festered throughout a great deal of the community. Personal issues and dislike grew into major problems for the server, staff, and community; and at some points influential players, current and past staff, and respected members were involved, which only made matters worse. Until these issues are resolved or forgotten it will be difficult to gain traction moving forward.
Since its inception, there have been people willing to give massive amounts of time and effort in order to create a better playing experience for the community. Regardless of recent opinion all changes to the server have been based on the opinions of the community: from the first armor rewrite and resource points to the custom plugin and the towny map. Obviously the latter two examples were too large to accomplish and took too long for any progress to be made. However, often times a toxic environment left it almost impossible to recruit and motivate staff. By the launch of the last map there was a majority of people almost hoping the map would fail. I have believed, and still believe, the community is, or can be, more mature and unified than that.
When the split to MCC was announced it was pitched to become the TWC of minecraft. However, soon after the move some admins became busy and had to resign, leaving a staff who, largely, were not involved in the decision to move. This led to the site under preforming, which is, imo, no one person or groups fault. It just is. For some time the idea of moving the community back to the TWC forums has been discussed in great length.
(The following is my personal take on it and I, like everyone, may not know everything. Also I hope to not overstep)
At the time of the last launch former and current MCC staff met to try and decide what to do. It was determined that we should stay and try and salvage MCC and one more map, at least for a time. It was then that RL caused GED and several others to be away, and many issues arose with the site and server. The MCC staff did try and fix what they could but somethings were out of reach, obviously. At GEDs departure he had just purchased new hardware for the community to host the server and left with the thought MCC would be given a chance.
Fast forward to the other day: GED returns and sees the MCC server abandoned after he had secured new hardware for the community, and the group moved into a private server using the TWC forums. We all know the angst and negative attitudes which were fostered at the last MCC launch, and no doubt this had an effect on the perception of the issue.
At the same time, 99% of the community had very little understanding of the matter and undoubtedly saw the move to twc as some sort of official response to the MCC site errors. While I dont excuse the behavior (and honestly I thought some of you were past this) of many people in this thread, the lack of understanding is expected to a point. That being said, I think every person that has been in this community for any amount of time knows that GED has floated the financial burden for the server and sites for a long time and as such would extend him the benefit of the doubt, at least until things are more understood.
Often times people say and act more hostile to the people they know than they ever would be to a stranger. As such I would like to see everyone take a step back and look at this situation from the other side and realize we are a community who possibly has become too used to dealing shortly with one another, and move past this. No one person knows all the directives, opinions, or even facts of this matter and as such we need to work together to salvage the reason we all play here, and why I would let my dinner get cold writing this post
Each side could continue to go back and forth over every grievance, but I would advise we drop the issue and work on a solution moving forward, rather than continually debate real and perceived issues.
* I realize I could go into extreme detail, but I dont think this is needed or wise.