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post Oct 16 2017, 05:23 PM
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With all apologies to our remaining members and with lengthy consideration I have decided to memorialize the Lightning-Strike Forum as of January 1, 2020.

Why?

  • Traffic (for sign-ups) has dwindled to a couple or less per month since I launched this site in October 1996 (21 years ago!), which is way beyond the typical lifetime of forums like this which tend to start decaying after 5-8 years. And the very few that do get approved to use the forum don't even post.
  • Trump this up to the rapid proliferation of media-rich social platforms as well.
  • It takes time and effort to run a forum, from checking new registrations daily to weekly data backups to fixing hacker damage and more. Unfortunately my time is becoming more limited nowadays and I forecast time will become more "needy" over the next year or two.

So what does this mean?
  • For now the main website and this forum will keep running as-is during the 2 year sunset process, during which time new people can still register and our current members can continue to post as usual.
  • Once the final days near, the website and forum will memorialized in-place. Meaning there will no longer be updates, new sign-ups or the ability to post.
  • This forum contains volumes of useful information and support vehicles for pet loss...85K+ posts created by more than 5K guests...so its original purpose will continue to serve people who have loved and lost their pets and other animals.
  • The L-S facebook page will continue to operate as it does today. Though i realize it could never replace this forum, we are close to having 10K members, so there are plenty of people out there who will find even the restricted forum to have benefit https://www.facebook.com/pet.loss.grief.support/
The members here helped make what L-S is today. For that, I thank you all! I would also like to take a moment to give kudos to the few forum moderators who helped keep the forum under a watchful eye over the years. I'll admit that I sort of burned out on my personal pet loss support efforts about 10 years ago... so everyone's help is also greatly apprecicated!

Two years is still far away, so please continue to use the resources provided by this website and forum. There's plenty of time wub.gif

MD Cohn


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post Dec 30 2019, 04:29 PM
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Just a quick reminder that this forum will revert to read-only some time on January 1st 2020. The private messaging system will also be disabled since this feature can be hijacked by hackers.

Two years went by so quickly, 24 years went by just as quick. Thank you to the many members who made this forum great, and to those who stuck by it all these years as it lost its luster. Thank you to our only remaining moderator moon_beam for her help with the mourners who have stopped by over the years.

We're still here to help anyone who happens by, there are so many wonderfully happy and sad stories here to tell.

I bid you goodbye for now, until we meet again on the Bridge.

MD Cohn 💖


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