Dear CluesForum members and readers,
Thank you all for your patience as we have worked tirelessly over the last few days to get the forum back, AND securely stabilized.
I want to express my sincere appreciation to the team here at CF for all the man-hours spent on this tedious task.
PianoRacer has also been instrumental in getting this thing up and going. I am incredibly grateful to him for his assistance with the most incredibly difficult aspects of the project (in particular down the “home stretch”). He is now an Administrator, and I think his unique skill-set will complement the existing Administrator duties around here.
Moreover, this of course would not have been possible without the encouragement and support of Simon and Nonhocapito, amongst a small handful of other members who took the time to express their support and confidence. On my part, I must admit that was sorely needed. At times it
felt like I may need to brace myself for the end of this incredible place. I can’t express how relieved I am that such fears did not materialize.
From that standpoint, I must say that the experience was eye-opening. As long as I’m around here, and I continue to have the support of my fellow Administrators and Moderators, my full intention is to
very deliberately take the necessary steps to TRY to prevent this type of thing from happening in the future (while being mindful that “accidents happen even in the best run universe”). My objective is to protect and preserve the existing research and maintain a vision for continuity as we continue onward.
I want to make sure to specifically thank Hoi for his
many hours of assistance (to me specifically) throughout the process. Arguably, it could have been done slightly faster. But, while he remains an Administrator here, he has been teaching me “the ropes” so that he may pursue other passions without feeling an unnecessary obligation (self imposed of course) to maintain this sometimes time-consuming “job.”
I’m humbled by the vote of confidence that he and Simon (amongst others) have placed in me.
I’m now taking a brief moment to breathe a sigh of relief, and get caught up on other things that life requires.
But I will be around.
Now, everybody “keep it real together,”

as we cannot afford to have infighting amongst well intended researchers who contribute here. The darker forces of this world are quite enough to contend with in my estimation.
Again, thank you all for your support and patience during what probably felt like a long 48 hours to many of you. I was always mindful of that, and I don’t take any of you for granted.
Sincerely,
SCS