Yorhel is also the creator of ncdu (a visual disk usage analyzer terminal tool which saved me countless times), as well as https://manned.org/ (a huge man pages index). And in the VN world he has also done a lot of non-public but equally vital work too. Tremendous loss.

This is a huge loss for the visual novel community.

Not just the loss of the person, but also the loss of the developer who was developing and maintaining what is probably the single most important resource for the community.

He will be sorely missed

I am sure there's some fellow nerds on HN that read or used to read visual novels and are familiar with the website

Backstory on the website and Yorhel: https://vndb.org/d7#2

Re-hosting the site non-anonymously is a "funny" issue, because of laws regarding child exploitation material that stupidly get applied to victimless fictitious anime-style drawings, and even in Japan, there would be stupid issues regarding lack of mosaic censorship or probably even copyright memes.