Child of Light Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Hello, everyone, I love this community. I've been a member of this site for 6 years and truly love our discussions and the resource that this site provides to members interested in spanking. I'm humbled to announce that I have purchased the site and am looking forward to working with and hearing from all of you in the days, weeks, and years to come. I bought the site to help ensure that our community is supported and that everyone feels welcome and supported when it comes to discussing spanking between consensual adults. To this end, I want to assure you that I'm going work collaboratively to ensure that any change is fully considered and opinions are collected. My first order of business is looking at the underlying software that runs the forum. I know many of (including myself) have been taken back by the change last week. Change can be a good thing but it needs buy-in from the community as well as a good underlying reason to support it. I will report back to you all next week with an update here. I understand that many aren't able to login or register and that is something I'm looking into ASAP. Please note this is a top priority. Again, I'm humbled to be apart of such a vibrant community and I'm looking forward to our journey together. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions. Have a great weekend, Updated post about this weekend further in the thread here. 9 Link to comment
geeky_child Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Congrats, CoL! You're going to be a great site owner. 1 Link to comment
CutASwitch Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Congrats on your purchase of the site and good to hear you have the community at heart. Look forward to seeing what you can do with it! 1 Link to comment
AssuredlyAbsent Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Congrats! It's good to know that someone that has a real interest in the site and spanking has taken ownership. I'll never forget how helpful you were when I was trying to sort all this out in the beginning. If not for this site then I wouldn't have had the level of support in this that I did. Thank you and all the best. 1 1 Link to comment
Gator Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 firstly I would like to thank @spankmeal for running such a great site all these years. this is truly a refuge for many of us. Child of Light - as the new site owner, may I humbly suggest you remove any and all language pertaining to the spanking of Children? There's a number of pages and areas on this site that mention it, and it is my opinion that it detracts from the purpose of the site - namely, that of promoting, encouraging, and discussing Safe Sane and Consensual Spanking practices among Adults. Thank you for considering this, and best of luck with your new venture! Gator 3 Link to comment
firstly I would like to thank @spankmeal for running such a great site all these years. this is truly a refuge for many of us. Child of Light - as the new site owner, may I humbly suggest you remove any and all language pertaining to the spanking of Children? There's a number of pages and areas on this site that mention it, and it is my opinion that it detracts from the purpose of the site - namely, that of promoting, encouraging, and discussing Safe Sane and Consensual Spanking practices among Adults. Thank you for considering this, and best of luck with your new venture! Gator
Child of Light Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 @Gator That's actually something I’ve voiced for many years and will be editing, in the next couple weeks. This is an adults spanking site. And I assure you that it will be well known that! The site has never allowed children content -- and any reference wont be on the site. Spankmeal has always had the community best interest at heart. He hasn't ever allowed discussions of minors and a strict policy of minors never joining the site-- but tried to upload content to main page of (safe) resources on how to talk to their parents and told children not to find someone online. It's a difficult position to be in... trying to look at all sides of things! The community has been vocal in not wanting that even mentioned. Which is something, as someone part of the community, that I also leaned towards. I also want to give you much thanks for crediting Spankmeal -- he ran a great site and hoping to still have his guidance here. ❤️ 3 Link to comment
FairlieBare Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 What happened to Hope and Gentle? It makes me nervous not seeing their familiarity of posts and comments... I know things take time, and like Gator said, this site has been such a refuge; with all this chaos and uprooting, I'm worried my sense of safety and comfort with this site may cease to exist. 1 Link to comment
Child of Light Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 Hope and Gentle are still Staff Members and will be around here. Spankmeal is more than welcome to stay on as staff too! This site will still be what it’s always been. 1 Link to comment
CrystalDoll Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Congratulations CoL! We all thank you from the bottom of our butts 2 Link to comment
Gator Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 I'd like to spank the bottom of your butt. The middle and sides too while I'm at it. Come out and see me sometime. Best coast not Beast coast! Link to comment
JoKitten Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Logging in hasn't been easy but it's Jo here so resourcefulness abounds. After finding the IP address and knowing what to do with one managed it.? Congratulations in taking over the reins and thanks to spankmeal and Hope and Gentle for their time running it. I'd echo your words over reference to 'actual' children and cp here as that topic impacted both of us badly and it any and all references to it need to go off site cos this is a site FOR adults whose lives include cp and that alone needs to be what content here should be centred on. 1 1 Link to comment
Child of Light Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 4 hours ago, JoKitten said: Logging in hasn't been easy but it's Jo here so resourcefulness abounds. After finding the IP address and knowing what to do with one managed it.? Congrats to making your way all the way through the forest to our testing (going live today) site! It will be much easier to find the site later today with the actual domain pointed to us! Link to comment
descordes Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Thank you, Child of Light!! 1 Link to comment
Angelty Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 3:20 PM, Child of Light said: Hello, everyone, I love this community. I've been a member of this site for 6 years and truly love our discussions and the resource that this site provides to members interested in spanking. I'm humbled to announce that I have purchased the site and am looking forward to working with and hearing from all of you in the days, weeks, and years to come. I bought the site to help ensure that our community is supported and that everyone feels welcome and supported when it comes to discussing spanking between consensual adults. To this end, I want to assure you that I'm going work collaboratively to ensure that any change is fully considered and opinions are collected. My first order of business is looking at the underlying software that runs the forum. I know many of (including myself) have been taken back by the change last week. Change can be a good thing but it needs buy-in from the community as well as a good underlying reason to support it. I will report back to you all next week with an update here. I understand that many aren't able to login or register and that is something I'm looking into ASAP. Please note this is a top priority. Again, I'm humbled to be apart of such a vibrant community and I'm looking forward to our journey together. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions. Have a great weekend, Thanks for the all support and hard work that staff members did try get the site back up 1 Link to comment
Child of Light Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 Hello, everyone... Testing... 1..2..3... I think we're back! Woohoo! ? It's been long several days on the back-end of the site. Many thanks to our wonderful developer @SpankingNeeds who has spent many hours bringing SN back to running order -- our dedicated Moderation Team @Hope @GentleDisciplinarian and every single one of you that have reached out to all of us asking us what you could do to help. That is what a community is. Really, all of us have been extremely grateful for how patient each and every one of you have been. We also couldn't and wouldn't forget the original founder @spankmeal -- and glad a few folks here have mentioned the great work he's done. About two weeks ago the site went offline. When it came back online, many of us (myself included) were surprised to see that the site had changed (as mentioned in the original post). It came to light that @spankmeal had sold the site during that time and the new owners had upgraded to a new software platform. We purchased the site from the new owners just days after. We are humbled and thankful that we had the opportunity to buy back the site for our community. It's just been an honor and we are so thrilled... words can't describe it. After discussing with @Hope and @GentleDisciplinarian, and speaking with several of you in chat, it was clear we as a community, needed to go back to the old software program (Invision Powerboard). There were a lot of conversion issues that happened when the site was taken from the one platform to the other. The site went down Friday night to accommodate the transfer. We are now running on a new server, with Invision Powerboard and are thrilled to be back up and running. Unfortunately, some of the new user registrations, posts, and other activities in the community are not currently on the site. @SpankingNeeds is working on this and we hope to have an update soon as to if they will be ported over. As we finalize the transition, there may be some features that behave oddly. If you encounter something like this, please let us know! Thank you for your patience, the site is back up and you can now see, it went through another change -- but one we're all more familiar with, our home. ❤️ Please use the Board Help & Feedback section to report anything wonky going on and for us to help you get your account up-and-running again! 5 Link to comment
GrayBeard Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Conratulations and thank you! 1 Link to comment
joe438 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Congratulations on the new ownership COL, and thank you for keeping a really great site alive. 1 Link to comment
spankmeal Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 A huge thanks to @Child of Light for buying and preserving the site! Without getting into too many details I could no longer afford to give SN either the time or money that it needs, and the maintenance of the site now exceeds my technical abilities. I believe the site to be in very capable hands, and am pleased to remain a member and help in any way I can. 5 1 Link to comment
Colonel Cokernel Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Thank you Child of Light. Spanking Needs is in very good hands 1 Link to comment
sweetpea Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Thank you everyone for your hard work and (((Hugs))) 1 1 Link to comment
shygurl Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Glad to be able to get back here!! I've missed it. Congrats on ownership!! I'm looking forward to see where it goes. 2 Link to comment
Ineedspankedbadly Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I’m so glad everything worked out! This community is amazing and I would have been so sad to lose it. Thank you to everyone who helps to keep it running! 1 Link to comment
SpankeeGal Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Woohoo, so glad old site is back!!!! Nice work!! 2 Link to comment
FtWorthOTK55 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Congrats from Texas. I had problems getting onto this site a few years ago and had to make a new profile. I have been on this site since 2007. 1 Link to comment
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