I find all your replies interesting.
Why should 'Chill' become public ?
Well the main reason is that forums are not really used like they were 3 - 5 years ago . They used to be places to create friendship and get support , yes 'Chill' still offers and supplies that but most people use facebook now so forums are now used 90% of the time for people to ask questions and find answers to questions and problems they have.
With the forum closed as it is now google cannot crawl the site , so for example if someone types into google - 'what help can I receive for caring for my husband' for example 'chill' will not come up , yet we have loads of info and support on that topic and 100's of others.
Reference to hackers - no hacker can find enough information about you from any of your posts.
We would keep certain boards closed so only new members can view them but please remember that anyone can join chill now , we do do certain checks on them to make sure they are a carer but dosent mean they can lie does it ?
The only thing that would change by making 'chill' open is as said above useful support and information would appear in search engines to help others.
Thanks
RossStatistics: Posted by Ukman — 21 Oct 2013, 18:13
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