When I sent out a mass mailing and posted a request for intputs about what to do with this site, I was anticipating a discussion on the neoBrainformation board. But, there is no reason why we can't brainstorm here where it is a little more like home and comfy.
I've always taken the stand that Brainformation (both of them now) belongs to the participating members. My intention was to give everyone a feeling of ownership and thus have a stake in the success of the forums. For the most part that happened and I tried to accomodate everybody's requests and suggestions where practical. We can all agree that approach has made us a unique and special place on the Internet.
Isn't it odd how change never comes easily? We were a small band of about a dozen close knit koffee klotchers for nearly two years. When the ChatterBank crowd migrated here from CereScape, I heard comments about cliques and how different that new crowd is. When the heavyweight political debaters arrived there were more complaints about the noise and dissention. And when the cussing picked up, it became an uproar over personal attacks. Now that the exact opposite has happened with the influx of a conservative older generation, we are confronted once again with lamenting of days gone by. What is a site administrator to do?
Seriously. What recommendations do you propose in order to make Brainformation your kind of site? Anything is open to discussion in a brainstorming session no matter how practical it may or may not be. Give me your ideas, and we will pick through the best of them to see if they can be implimented.
I'm a little restricted as far as styles go. Cobalt and Holiday Red are not currently being developed for the new software. Layouts, on the other hand, can be modified. New members cannot. But, there may be ways to work with and/or around them. As far as disappearing friends are concerned, I banned one person and eliminated several aliases. Strange as it seems, a couple other members stopped showing up after all this purging. So, if your missing friends are among the aliases that were deleted, I can't do anything about that either. And one final observation. Legend probably will remain on this site indefinitely. Think about it.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.