Whatever the reasons why this had to be, it feels like a death. Because it is one.
The community which exists here cannot exist on Substack for any number of technical and logistical reasons, even if large numbers of people didn’t have issues with it in its own right, which they do. Many people won’t go there. Many others can’t.
When this BBS goes RO, what was here will die. Something else will try to replace it on Substack, but it can’t: at best it will be something new and very different.
There was next to no warning, which is another shock. We are told that what we have is about to die, when we didn’t even know it was ill. It’s a shock, and a gut punch.
Change may be inevitable sometimes, but change can also be a small death, and people are hurt, and people will grieve what was, however it is replaced.
bOINGbOING is moving, but the BBS is to be buried.
Vale BBS. It’s been great.
