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It is with great sadness and regret that we announce that the Slipstream BBS is to close. It will remain open in read only mode for a seven-day period to enable any members to collect any written materials that were stored on the site that they wish to keep. SlipstreamWeb and SlipstreamNews will also not receive any updates anymore, but all content will remain accessible for the time being. A few days ago, the latest in a series of situations occurred on the Slipstream BBS that caused yet more panic and alarm amongst the membership and the staff. Things seemed to be escalating out of control, and thus we decided that at short cooling off period might be in order for everyone. We felt this would give everyone time to reflect, and give us some time to really evaluate how we felt about the direction of the site. For that reason, we shut down the board for at least a 24-hour period. The mass of negative emotion that awaited us the following morning was rather overwhelming, and contributed to our decision that the BBS should not re open. The Slipstream BBS has been a seriously stressful BBS to maintain for quite some time; one crisis after another as more and more resentment from the membership became apparent. At the same time, we have had a waning interest in the show, which only increased after the departure from the staff of the last writers we enjoyed the work of. The primary reason we've been keeping the site running was because we felt an obligation to the membership. Unfortunately, when it became clear that the majority of the membership did not want to see us running the site anymore, and in fact seemed to resent us for running the site in the way we did, we did not feel it would be good for either us or the membership to continue to run the site. For those who haven't a clue about recent problems and wonder just what made us come to these conclusions, we offer the biggest apology. We especially would like to apologise to those people who sent emails of support over the past few days, emails for which we're grateful. We're very sorry, but Slipstream BBS is no longer the site we want to invest our time in. Of course, the fact we do not wish to continue to invest time in this community does not mean we want to see the community itself be destroyed, so below you can find some alternatives for the Slipstream BBS. We have been asked if we would like to hand over the member database and/or the domain names to people who would like to continue the board. Unfortunately, we can't do this. Handing over the member database would have serious privacy issues connected to it - we do not wish to open the email and membership details we have on file to the potential abuse of a new owner. Similarly, we would also not like the risk of some project we could not stand behind eventually arising on a domain name that used to belong to us. Hopefully you'll still find what you're looking for on one of the following sites: The official Andromeda site has a lively BBS. Many from the Slipstream community have already migrated to the Robert Hewitt Wolfe board. A former Slipstreamer also operates the Andromeda Previews board. Two Slipstream actors have busy boards - Keith Hamilton Cobb or Gordon Michael Woolvett both have places for fans to interact. And of course, if you liked the set up at Slipstream BBS, we run and maintain the Trek BBS that has the same layout, software and similar rules to the Slipstream BBS. It has a happy community you're more than welcome to participate in, and Andromeda discussion is encouraged in the general science fiction forum. Thank you for participating in the Slipstream BBS in whatever form you enjoyed the site - lurking, occasional visitor or long time Purple Pixie. We did enjoy maintaining the sites for a long time, and we'll miss it. -Lisa and Christian. |
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