Agreed. I'm a Botcomics subscriber and outside of this forum on the site it is running fine but if this forum doesn't straighten out and fly right soon, I might just cancel the whole shebang. While I've only personally met few BEA members, I have made some friends here like Eliza/Charade, Shadowmuse, Bombayduk and others who are friendly to me on this forum. I enjoy their entries yet they haven't made, or made very few, posts in the forum in the last couple of weeks and it is like being cut off from friends. 
I'm losing patience since the owner(s) doesn't keep/give any appraisal of what is going on or a progress report. He/She does have our emails so why not send a mass email(s) to the forum members and just let us know what is going on and a ETA of when things will go back to normal. I don't think I'm being unreasonable.
Thanks, Sol; I had imagined the BEA would be a place of camaraderie since we all share a particular interest, but like so much of social media, anonymity allows people to say things they would never say to your face, thus no matter how faithful you remain to the subject, there are those that have no tolerance for whatever obscure reason; I don't have to agree with everything posted, but I do have the tolerance to not object to every post. So friends are not as plentiful here as they once were 20 years ago.
I have no interest in waiting 5 minutes to see what someone posted on a thread and have not posted myself since the day this problem started weeks ago; clearly, the vast majority are doing the same. Soon people will stop coming and move on and I suspect many have already done so. I forget the owners name, but I imagine he understands the old business proverb that is takes 6x the effort to regain a customer as it does to retain him, so the only rationale conclusion is that he no longer cares about the forum, which is a shame because it introduced the world to huge breasted girls like no other. Forums run on existing programs just like your computer, and just like your computer, there are programs designed to perform maintenance and fix broken data (how a binary system gets "broken" is bye me), but this isn't 1994, I don't use a 14.4 modem, and when things go wrong, I don't have to deletetree my drive and reload Windows 3.11. That said, just simply reloading the program should have been sufficient and easy for the IT guy, because all the posts should be on a separate drive, at least that is the way every business does it, and after starting over far too many times, realized this is the way to address home computers; one drive for the OS, one for storage. Of course, today, the smart people are putting their OS on a cloud to avoid problems; I'm not there yet. I remain somewhat optimistic, thought given the length of time, I am beginning to have doubts about the future of the BEA forum.