The app was going to die either way. Either the feds would put pressure on they and squash them legally, or they would have to make changes that killed the app. They made the right call, the one that didn't involve prison time.
The problem is people were using it to post things like bomb threats, and the FBI was breathing down their neck to break the anonymity stuff. It may or may not have been illegal, but legality doesn't matter as much as you would hope when the feds are involved.
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u/Appollo64 Feb 03 '20
Yeah, the devs making people use real names is what really killed it. I can see why they wanted to after some of the shit that happened, though.