At the time the service was closed down the website had around 24,000 posts on it, nearly all of which related to child pornography.
Anton Vickerman, whose surfthechannel.com website had around 400,000 users a day, was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to defraud in June following an eight-week trial at Newcastle crown court.
The website currently has around 20,000 users nationwide.
Fear of being panned on its website, which has around 200m reviews, has led many establishments to focus exhaustively on their levels of service because its rating can be make-or-break.
Sugar will live on via its website, Sugarscape.com, which has around 430,000 unique users a month, while Elle has looked to offer its readers a "360 degree experience" with complementary content on apps and online.
Although the purge likely did only impact these larger user accounts to this extent, it's a notable sweep, as the website itself only has around 40 million users globally, according to November numbers from comScore.
This website has been around since 2008 but is still apparently in Beta.
The website has been around for a while, but is becoming useful again because of how hard it is to find AirPods.
Not to be confused with the betaworks' project Homescreen.is, which came later, the Homescreen.me website has been around since 2010.
Flatmates.com.au, Australia's biggest house sharing website, has been around since 1997.
