i don't even know if there were any actual bad apples in the discord that drove them to do this but to me it just seems like they baby raged and shut it down (possibly due to criticism)
The "bad apples" in question were you and Cowtastic. Shisor, in secret, never liked you two to begin with, possibly due to your personalities or something. I could kinda see why, though.
Also, shutting down the discord wasn't my idea, it was Shisor's. I just decided to roll along with it because it seemed like he knows what he was doing and what was best for this project's future. Granted, he's pretty apathetic towards pretty much anything I do nowadays, but it still seemed like he had something back then.
And no, we didn't shut it down due to criticism. As a matter of fact, there was barely any criticism that I could remember being directed at ZAPT:R, with maybe the exceptions of the server lag and me barely hosting, which I didn't even respond that harshly too.