We upgraded the forum software (an expensive gift from the Paltrow family) on that day, and everyone had to find the forum at a new web URL if they wanted to continue on, re-agree to the terms of use, which were also modified then, and resign in. We sent a PM to every poster that had been anctive in the last 10 months and that's what happened on that day. The forum calculates things in hour segments and while people were doing all day for several day,s that was when most people took action.

Another commonly asked question is realted to members. Today it says 7115 members. The most recently signed on member, is number 7761.... this to some, does not add up.

Members pass away, and we deactivate their membership if the family does not continue to post under that name in 30 days afterwards. So their profile and posts still live on in the messages boards and threads containing their wisdom, strengths, fears, and pain are their legacy left for others still today. But their number has been permanently retired. That reduces the member number on the right colum. There are clearly many that fall into this group, and I occasionally go back to read the levity, the wisdom, and more that they offered others, even at their most difficult period in their lives.

That inner strength is something that I personally can only aspire to, and on the bad days (more often than I care to reveal), I re read some of it to remind myself of what true courage is, allowing me to buck up to the current challenges at hand. Their memory deserves it.

The other numbers also do not reflect the true history of activity on the boards. We routinely go back and "prune" the "wish you well" posts a few years after they are no longer relative, so if we had left them up there, the board (a decade after its inaugural debut) would have over 200,000 posts on it.