[ZombieSlayer]

Howdy folks

Mr. Lester is now back home in Boston after traveling for his job with Linden Labs. He will be getting to work on restoring BrainTalk and will have an updated message at BrainTalk soon.

That is all I know. I will come back and update this thread when I know more.

[annelb]

Thanks for the update.
Anne

[anonymous]

First, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Dr. Grohol for his implementation of this temporary BrainTalk2 site and to those who are “spreading the word” about it. I too, as all others, have been very perplexed regarding the long outage of the BrainTalk site and the lack of updates as to its return.

This post is just to list some “observations” regarding the apparent activities of Mr. Lester based on his posts on other web pages (URLs) that he owns/controls. I am not attempting to imply anything by this post, I will just let others draw their own conclusions.

Other URLs that Mr. Lester owns/posts to are as follows:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/
http://slprofiles.com/slprofiles.asp?id=3166
http://zero.hastypastry.net/pathfinder/

JL appears to post lots of photographs of his activities on his flickr page, with photo updates on nearly a daily basis. Many of his photo sets appear to be from his recent travels, however it appears that at least some of the photo sets are also from around the Boston area (where he lives), such as the “Artbeat 2006” set, with the local events taking place within the time period that BrainTalk has been down.

Again, I am not attempting to imply anything here, just listing some observations. We are all greatly indebted to JL for the development and support of BrainTalk over these past several years. However if the responsibilities/interests of his new job are now such that there is a support void that will continue to impact the 50,000+ BrainTalk users, perhaps it would be in order to request that the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Information Technology (IT) department again accept responsibility for this site. (Note: I have no idea if JL would agree to this or if MGH would even want this responsibility again).

Sincerely,
A concerned user.

[lisa6wks]

You know, I am not surprised that you posted as "anonymous" because you have a lot of nerve. Perhaps if you don't like the way John is running things, YOU can do it! John is entitled to have a life for crying out loud. He understands how important these boards are to people, but sometimes you just have things to do.

Put your money where your mouth is

Lisa

[Bobbi]

((( Thank you, ZombieS. ))) for the info., as well as for the temporary flash chat rooms you set up (and server space you're donating for the chat system to work). Your thoughtfulness hasn't gone unnoticed .

Originally Posted by ZombieSlayer

Howdy folks

Mr. Lester is now back home in Boston after traveling for his job with Linden Labs. He will be getting to work on restoring BrainTalk and will have an updated message at BrainTalk soon.

That is all I know. I will come back and update this thread when I know more.

[anonymous]

Thank you for your reply. No negativity was intended and yes, he certainly deserves to have a life. The overall lack of updates over these past several weeks however has been perplexing. We will all look forward to the site coming back up.

Originally Posted by lisa6wks

You know, I am not surprised that you posted as "anonymous" because you have a lot of nerve. Perhaps if you don't like the way John is running things, YOU can do it! John is entitled to have a life for crying out loud. He understands how important these boards are to people, but sometimes you just have things to do.

Put your money where your mouth is

Lisa

[Jeannie]

After the last big crash on BT we all donated money for it to be fixed so it wouldn't happen again.

So much for it not happening again and for not keeping members updated.

[Jane]

It's been quite a while since the last crash and resulting upgrading of the equipment..........by internet standards. This was no great surprise.

Jane

[Jeannie]

July 20, 2006






Greetings! We've had a pretty major crash here at BrainTalk involving both software and hardware. I'm working on bringing everything back up as soon as possible, so please rest assured that BrainTalk will be back in a matter of days!



In the meantime, I will be using this status page to keep everyone updated on progress.




I'm terribly sorry for this downtime. It happened at the worst possible time for me (while I was traveling), and I know how important BrainTalk is to everyone. I will make sure it comes back online ASAP (good opportunity for me to upgrade some of the software, too!), and thank you for your patience.




-John Lester, BrainTalk Communities

braintalk@gmail.com

[BobbyB]

to john lester,

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to john lester, can we come up with a new way to moderate the ALS forum ?

i know you gotta have rules and your gonna ban people that do wrong.
but can we have a say in this ?
some how vote or do polling on who gets banned and how long.

i know there is some people that don't know when to shut up but you have to remember there sick or something.

there has to be a better way ?

please think about this.
THANK YOU FOR BT.

Bobby B
DX/94 ALS