> I believe the previous owner was Pyromania.

Pyromania (Bill Panagouleas) is the current owner. The previous owner was Transition (Tedd Gallion), whose user profile had been merged with the SysAdmin user profile:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=702374

> He shut down the site in protest of something i can't remember and lots of people left.

Yes, more there:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62283