Detectorists’ Personal Sites

This list of "Detectorists’ Personal Sites" comes from the "Links" section of the UKDFD alongside their intelligence-insulting "Metal Detecting - The Hobby and its Detractors". The site seems to have been neglected and most of these links no longer work (and the "Widget" one seems to be infected with something - click at your own risk) 

• Bazza's Site
• Bob Bailey's Metal Detecting Site
• Ceejay's Metal Detecting Pages
• Detego Metal Detecting
• Venicone's Site
• Dino's Site
• Widget's Site
• Dean's Site

So why is it that in 2005 it was fashionable for detectorists to make websites showing what they had found, and today it is no longer so attractive a proposition? Are these people ashamed of what they are doing?