Edit: It turns out site admin Root's just going rouge and he is currently suspected of going regressive, he's completely responsible for what happened and goolag did nothing.
Http://www.1d4chan.org was censored by google, unfortunately this also meant that duckduckgo recently stopped indexing it.
Jesus christ.
Duckduckgo also needs an alternative due to the fact they engaged in terrorist financing.
He has, somewhat.
The editor discord was set up by Lemming as a response to Root's absentism. There is a strong desire in the editor community to not schism. As long as Root doesn't offline the site entirely, the editors won't initiate a fork. But measures have already been put in place to facilitate a fork at any time if Root escalates.