To me, since he still hasn’t solved this problem even though he promised to, even giving a date to solve it a few times, and his non-transparent attitude seem suspicious and makes me question for some time now whether he deliberately cancelled the editing, especially since the emboldened part is the only selling point of a payed membership “benefits”
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Running a forum is a somewhat risky business (if you approach it as a business), it is pricey; and I wouldn’t have any issues with donations etc, I think it’s a reasonable way of keeping the site running; but not like this.
If he is genuine about fixing the disappearance of the editing option, but he cannot achieve that due to whatever, he should’ve explained that openly and sincerely. Instead he keeps promising he will fix it by this day or that day, apologizing etc but nothing gets fixed and doesn’t acknowledge or give explanations for him not keeping the promises he made.
Alternatively, he could have written “this is my forum, I bought it, this is the way things will be” and I would have no issues with that either. I would simply stop using his forum.