I want to sincerely apologize to everyone for the situation that happened. I know many people felt disappointed, uncomfortable, or misled, and I fully understand why. I am genuinely sorry for the confusion, the lack of clarity, and for handling everything so poorly.
To be completely transparent: I did use AI tools during development, mainly for improving the UI, polishing visuals, and fixing smaller frontend issues. Web design has never been my strongest area, so I relied on those tools to speed up things that would have otherwise taken me much longer.
However, the backend systems, core logic, infrastructure, and overall implementation of the project were made by me. This was never intended to be a fully AI-generated project, nor was my intention to mislead anyone into believing otherwise.
The website was also never supposed to be public yet. Unfortunately, an unfinished development version accidentally became publicly accessible earlier than intended, which caused people to discover and join the platform before it was actually ready.
Looking back now, I realize I became far too excited about finally bringing an idea I cared about for months into reality. Because of that excitement, I rushed things badly and made decisions without thinking enough about the consequences or how people would perceive everything.
I truly regret that. I regret disappointing people, damaging trust, and creating unnecessary drama around something that was originally meant to be positive. I know saying "sorry" does not instantly fix things, but I genuinely mean it when I say that I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.
Most importantly, I want to apologize to everyone who trusted me and felt let down by how everything unfolded. I especially want to apologize to @wakko, because without him, I would never have had the opportunity to help lead this project in the first place. I feel like I disappointed him the most, and that honestly hurts me a lot.
After discussing everything internally, control of the project and the domain will now be returned to Azéna Group. They will have full control moving forward.
I know apologies alone are not enough, but I will learn from these mistakes, continue improving, and make sure something like this never happens again.
- Meli