Cyber Refugees

April 3, 2006

Right now I have cyber writing friends who have become cyber refugees. You see on April 1st, known as April Fool’s Day, Mike’s writing site, “Liberty Hall,” had a very unkind prank played on it. The hosting company was hacked by hackers and Liberty Hall was lost! Right in the middle of a huge competition to celebrate its One Year Anniversary of the timed flash challenges. One of the awards is to get published in a magazine.

This nasty prank has played havoc on people’s stress threads and emotions. There were many people who had their own little forums to place stories for feed back and where they organized their thoughts and layouts for publications. But that is all lost now.

Writers have been working hard on their contest stories, and now there is no place to post them. The magazine reserved a spot of the winner and now there isn’t one.

That is all the sad part of this story. But a lighter part is that these cyber refugees are finding refuge at “The NoteBored.” Many of them were already members there and the others are following. Liberty Hall will be back again and it will grow strong again. These inconsiderate people, won’t stop us. In fact, this has already happened once to the NoteBored, but it is back and strong and better equipped to fight off such non-sense. It has been a busy time at the NoteBored, bringing our lost friends in and making them feel at home. We are already set up for the Liberty Hall contest (which has been postponed a week), in case it is needed. As actors say, “The show must go on.”

But the story gets even brighter. Mike is in the process of finding a more secure home to re-set up Liberty Hall and get it on its feet again. He says that he as found one and that the site should be back up by the end of the week. There is all hope of having the contest at the new Liberty Hall.

I just wished idiots, i.e. hackers, would care about other people. Though they think this is all fun and games, it really isn’t. Innocent people get hurt and valuable things get lost.

I will update my Liberty Hall thread here, when I know the new site.