most people get better and move on

Most people don't spend their entyre life figuring out their sexuality. Your old friends have more pressing things to think about than what is going on in this ol chat. People have real life priorities. Doesn't mean they love you any less or wish ill on BC. It's just not a priority for them like it was when they were younger. The "problem" with BC is it's too open and too accepting. Like a free meal at a soup kitchen, but you got to put up with a few stinky weird bums. For a long time enough halfway normal people were frequenting the soup kitchen that they set a civilized friendly tone that the crazies blended in with, but over time other places have started serving normal people's needs better than this old place and as people understandably migrate to better sites, they stop keeping this old place up. They might wish BC well and stop by from time to time, but for the most part they take the attitude that BC isn't their problem anymore. It's like a freshwater lake drying up so much that the minerals got concentrated into a brackish swamp, and then over time swamp monkeys took it over and now no amount of fresh inflow could make it palatable. You have a lot of good ideas, good art style and heart. Why volunteer it for this old swamp of a website? Make something new and better on unspoiled land.