Whoa. This is new news to me. Mostly because I jumped the alchemylab ship a while ago. I think I made my move shortly after Beth created bpal excathedra, and then I glommed on to bpalanonymous instead because despite my username I am all about the luurve.

To be honest, I had forgotten that Beth created alchemylab in the first place until you mentioned it just now. But yeah, makes sense.

Yeah, it was always her baby. It's funny: BPAL.org isn't owned by Beth and she doesn't have mod priviledges (she can look at everything, but she can't change anything), but we are constantly accused to being owned by the Lab, while a huge number of people have written that they didn't know the AlchemyLab Live Journal was owned by the Lab when it was.

*sigh* Ya just can't win sometimes.

I DO know it was a huge amount of stress for Beth, and so I'm glad to see it go.

I DO know it was a huge amount of stress for Beth, and so I'm glad to see it go.

Even if only for that reason, I'm glad to see it go as well. I prefer bpalanonymous for LJ community conversations (the "no drama" rule appeals to me greatly) anyway.

btw... very cool new icon!!

Whoa. This is new news to me.

Beth's post in alchemylab today further explains why she needs to close it down. Apparently the potential legal problems that could be associated with it (which the community of course knew nothing about until now, because Beth doesn't go around complaining about things like that) are becoming... well, problematic. Jump over there and see what Beth says, though, because I don't want to be putting words in her mouth.

Yeah. I should see it for myself. Last time I was on there was during the last forum downtime... which directly led to me signing on with bpalanonymous. But, yeah. I should see it with my own two... thanks!