[EdNose]

I've been on various ED sites and forums for about 20 years now, and your post just makes me wonder if I actually know you from other sites as well. Or how many other "long haulers" like us are still managing to live our lives with our ED behaviors beside us. Food for thought. (Sorry for that bad pun.)

I had a feeling of that even before I saw what you wrote. I just can not pin point it. Pretty Thin 1 or 2? Thin? PostProAna?

I think perhaps "long haulers" (I don't know that word but understand what it stands for) manage because they find a balance, where they are no longer extreme but also not what people would call "normal"?

Teddy

 

[BeanpoleThin]

i wish we could ask for the early 2000s style forums on EDC or mypancake addiction T_T the dated design of mpa is always so comforting; being on the other sites just feels too moderns and weird :-/

Yes a "web 2.0" look and feel would be appealing to me too. That was when I first got onto mental health and pro/a forums. I'm old lol.

 

[coldthin]

I'll say one last thing for the evening. The goal is not to just make it some recovery dead zone. You won't be forbidden from talking about ED. Living with something is just as big as overcoming it. It would be insane otherwise. Putting the site on a new stabilized software inherently makes it more visible to google crawlers. That's just a fact of site hosting. Personal information can and will be removed on request. Same with photos. Things that would cause Google violations that could get the site axed will be behind a login wall at least and yes some stuff may be removed. Not arbitrarily, not based on some inane puritanical sensibility, based on the singular question "does this do more harm than good" that won't be up to one person.

Thank you

That doesn't make it better at all.

" Does this do more harm than good" is so incredibly subjective and it's exactly the reasoning tumblr uses in their current policy to totally and utterly take down any and all ana content that's not sparkly clean and advertiser friendly.

And what do you mean it won't be up to one person? Who will it be up to? How does multiple people judging make it better, if all those people have to follow the same new protocol?

I'm still waiting on a reply on this but okay

I wish there were clarity. The lack of transparancy and clarity really makes me feel like our worries have been justified and this is not going to be good for us.

 

[not_my_body]

Any updates?

I kinda feel like this is the calm before the storm...

But I'm trying not to.

 

[catgomeow]

Soooo does this mean we no longer have a safe place to talk about our EDs anymore? Fantastic /s

go to pancakes, if you havent already. A bunch of folks moved house when the big tech issues started so its already got a splinter community

 

[catgomeow]

i say that everyone ditch mpa for edc so the new owners have no members left on here. mpa is one of the only places where you can actually talk about your ed freely, if that's taken away, then it'll just become like every other dead recovery forum on the internet

whats edc?

 

[OMANKO]

im so late and im embarrassed bc i was in rEcOvErY..... damn i been on mpa since age 10/11 and i'm abt to be 20 YEARS OLD. i really hope this site survives, i love this community.

 

[sectum-sempra]

 

[♥ lilly ♥]

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sorry deleted

 

[♥ lilly ♥]

Naw, I'm sure the Jewish being led into gas showers of Nazi Germany wasn't stressful to them at all.

okay yes i agree i don't love this change, but let's not compare this to the freaking holocaust where millions of people died, ok?

 

[♥ lilly ♥]

shit i gotta find all my old rly personal posts and delete them, i forgot what sort of stuff child me was even saying so this might be bad

 

[yourdad7]

soooo the one place we (everyone on this site) have that feels safe is getting basically destroyed? the one place we can go and ACTUALLY talk about what we're going through without getting judged is going to become yet another place of judgement? another place where we have to censor our thoughts to be "friendly" instead of saying what we actually mean? why???? why why why ????

i don't even come on MPA much anymore but this has been a safe space for me for years. people on this website have saved my life more than once. now we probably won't even be able to say that because talking about death and suicide are too "enabling" aren't they? a majority of people who come on here aren't looking for recovery. most of the time whenever people are "enabling" they're doing it while encouraging safety. whereas if people were alone we would be getting hurt much worse. god this probably doesn't make any sense i'm just so mad.

 

[♥ lilly ♥]

is there any way i can get my content deleted without going back to newbie status? that sounds weird but i still want like access to everything but some of my old content should not be there

 

[Ipesina]

amazing. so where do people who dont want to recover go? find a new community i guess?

 

[MorbidFixation]

Any updates from mods? I feel like there's been all this talk of things happening and other than the Looking for Friends, etc. changes awhile back, we're just sitting around waiting.

 

[James Buchanan Barnes]

Any updates from mods? I feel like there's been all this talk of things happening and other than the Looking for Friends, etc. changes awhile back, we're just sitting around waiting.

Mods are radio silent. I'm trying not to think too badly about it, maybe they needed a break. But I really hope we hear something soon.

 

[moss_]

so are you basically saying everything that makes mpa mpa is going to be gone? watered down? only recovery and no talk of diets? guess i'll screenshot my favorite posts :/

 

[craphappens]

so are you basically saying everything that makes mpa mpa is going to be gone? watered down? only recovery and no talk of diets? guess i'll screenshot my favorite posts :/

I'd say.. No.

Look past all the dramatic posts that include overactive imaginations as to what is to come here. Make up your own decisions on what YOU see and how your experience is here.

 

[James Buchanan Barnes]

I'd say.. No.

Look past all the dramatic posts that include overactive imaginations as to what is to come here. Make up your own decisions on what YOU see and how your experience is here.

Can you stop? Can you seriously stop invalidating how people are feeling about this absolutely scary situation? I've watched you do it nonstop since this started and honestly it's uncalled for. Stop invalidating how people handle a safe place being taken over by a huge cooperation. It's really pissing me and a lot of people off but no one is gonna say anything so it's gotta be me.

Please. Stop invalidating us.

 

[ヤムフライ。]

...right okay, back to pancake i go