Gregg.....Please.......stop for a minute, and just listen to yourself......You didn't get my goat, and I'm not upset with you....but the whining and griping really need to stop. I'm saying this with all the honesty and love that I have.....
You are taking a public forum on a message board way too seriously. I think there was plenty of notice given for everyone to copy and save anything they wanted to keep.....I know I saw several announcements with cut off dates posted. Jordan even posted very good directions for emailing files to ourselves along with other options to save the files.
Could it be that maybe the announcements and switch were made during one of your notorious "leaving the board episodes", and you missed the information? I was able to copy everything I wanted to keep, with plenty of time left over. Nobody here is so special that they deserved a PM to notify them of the change. Software eventually becomes obsolete, and changes are necessary.....we have to accept it and deal with it.
You can't continue to blame the admins for this....that is just wrong.
I did read the backstory of the writing group in its entirety......and I have to say that I disagree with the points you made about some of it being wonderful or hilarious.....I found the whole thing with Muskie's online romance kinda horrible....it had to have been awful for him, and to play out publicly like that....how embarrassing. I felt really bad for him.....and for me, the thing with Mark was anything but hilarious.....
and how many times tod certain "group owners" get bent out of shape, and delete the entire group?....I can recall several times. I wouldn't call that fun.....at least it wasn't for me. I don't enjoy stuff like that.
I'm not saying that it was all bad, either.....there was a lot of laughter and friendships were built..... but those friendships won't fail simply by losing group writings, or entire message boards. True friendship stands.
I think that people move on from here for whatever reason, and I don't believe it really has anything to do with the format of the new site....Life throws us huge curveballs sometimes.....we have to deal with it the best way we can.
If you miss my daisies, I'll do better to post them more often.....you can find Spidey's Happy Fridays and all sorts of her fabulous "Spidey Zen" in the Cantina.....Siggie still posts Faeries from time to time, and has some really good discussion topics. All you have to do is look around and give the new place a real try.....the people haven't changed.....we just have a new house.
I know this is gonna make you angry....and I'm sorry. I hope that when the anger passes, you will realize that I have said all this in a true spirit of love and friendship.
Please give the new place a try.....start threads about things you like....if you build it, they will come ♥
Love & Daisies