The deletion

I'm curious, and here would be the perfect place to tell everyone, admins: Why are you closing the server? We've heard those answers about money and time, but did you expect a server to be run on its own? Did you expect everything to be all perfect? Did you not consider what you'll have to do to run this server? The server may not be as exciting as the first few weeks, but why should that be a reason to close a server you slaved over for MONTHS to create? I don't understand why you admins are so uptight about this issue! We all want a perfectly clear, reasonable answer why you HAVE to close the server. The players, the loyal ones, love to play on this server, some even bought minecraft for this occasion, and you'll just close it since you can't take responsibility for the upkeep of a minecraft server? We're all ears admins of yocraft, give us an answer.
~SantaClaws

For one, the server was whitelisted at 12 AM on Saturday, April 13.
Second, there is an explanation, here:
https://yocraft.forumotion.com/t870-reason-for-the-server-closing

I wish the admins told us this sooner. We wouldn't have gone all crazy if that were the case. This is understandable and reasonable, we all make mistakes like this, who's to blame? There're times when we can't handle responsibility if you've taken too much to begin with. You all're awesome!

~SantaClaws

From what I can tell, the decision to make the server private was very last minute. I was not involved with said decision, so I don't know for sure.

The decision to make it private was a last-minute decision by the staff.

I want cake

Will ._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.

Also, just noting, the server is actually whitelisted. There's a lot of people that just think it's dead, but that's not the case.