Filejoker is only required on the parts of the board that align with the moral limitations they have(which is usually dictated by credit card companies or other payments methods stuff if you want them to work with you) so that shouldn't be an issue here.
The mods here work for free and there's a lot of work to be done to prevent the board from having crap or badly sorted content (since many of the heavy posters don't properly look at what they upload) so there's a lot of passion going into it. It wouldn't cost that much if it was a low traffic website but the traffic is quite high and also requires multiple servers just to be able to run decently well so that cost quite a bit of money which is why a sponsor becomes necessary.
While akiba certainly isn't perfect, it's doing the best it can with the resources it has and has been for a very long time. Competent unpaid labor is hard to find, especially over such a long life.
If you have no use for the remaining content or don't like the site for one reason or another, you're free to leave, nobody is being forced to do anything they don't want.
The mods here work for free and there's a lot of work to be done to prevent the board from having crap or badly sorted content (since many of the heavy posters don't properly look at what they upload) so there's a lot of passion going into it. It wouldn't cost that much if it was a low traffic website but the traffic is quite high and also requires multiple servers just to be able to run decently well so that cost quite a bit of money which is why a sponsor becomes necessary.
While akiba certainly isn't perfect, it's doing the best it can with the resources it has and has been for a very long time. Competent unpaid labor is hard to find, especially over such a long life.
If you have no use for the remaining content or don't like the site for one reason or another, you're free to leave, nobody is being forced to do anything they don't want.