I read "promises" and see they are broken, over and over and when I see explanations late or never coming, and when I suspect doubletalk...I lose interest pretty quickly.

Promises: JL promised that the 2000 board would remain with all its information in read only format... REALITY: it was turned off with no warning.

Downs/glitches: responded to days later, or never (we did not hear from any admin about the current problem for DAYS).

Doubletalk: Blocking links to here-- censoring them in posts.
"Can't work on form lists --only John can do that"--- well Admins there have
added forums to the list, are going to work on Epilepsy forum, have closed Sanctuary to guests, etc. They seem very capable of DOING things.

I posted this once before and I will so again:
As of 10-10-97 there were THREE earlier forums before the 1997 version
and all of them were dropped and no information saved. This is posted clearly on The Wayback Machine in Spinal Forum.
The 2000 forum was turned off with no warning after promises to keep it archived. (some is on Wayback Machine but the vast majority is lost forever).
The 2004 forum is totally lost-- I do not think any archive will be forthcoming from it (it was huge and filled with information) and now we cannot access
the BT forums efficiently at all. Trying to keep information SAFE here and link to it is being censored and blocked.

It is not the handling of one down that is upsetting people...it is a 10 yr history of behavior that disrespects those who made BT a novel, helpful, informative place.

I just went there and read the announcement at Epilepsy... so there will be little islands now of special people with passwords
who can post and block general readers? Make it an exclusive club? How will people in need find what they want? That is what made BT great...its availability. I have been looking at their forums home...not many members are there anymore...just trolling bots.

And I won't even address the "reign of terror" that lasted over a year there that many here know about. That seems to be over,
and there is no reason to dredge it up again. It alone was devastating!