I woke up wondering what ever happened to the owners

From what I remember, they weren't overly concerned about us, so I have to admit that I haven't given them a thought since they went.

Weren't they printing t shirts with vaguely inappropriate slogans or some such?

...probably stopping in daily to read and pulling their hair out that they lost it...

Interesting update on their blog...

Here is the link:

Update on the White Family

GIANT eye roll.

I won't click on the link. I am not giving them the extra traffic on their blog.
Seriously, screw them.

Same, fam.

There was something about the tone. I don't know. I wish them well, really. But, her stuff reads as though she's still harboring some anger and resentment. It was a message board (and, I suppose, a not-wonderfully-run business). Being damaged because strangers were mean on the interwebs tells me that they are quite sheltered. There were a lot of wonderful parts of those message boards that they should be proud of. It wasn't all bad. It was a lot of creativity, sharing, fun, and personal support. 

Their kids look happy and healthy, though, and that is a blessing. Good for them!

Thanks kimpossible  Those are some of the exact lines I was choking over.

Building it and then shitting all over those loyal customers.  That my opinion anyway.  They sure didn't do any favors for the message board followers who called it "home".

Wow. For someone who is proud of owning a "multi million dollar" business, she sure is ungrateful to the customers who spent those millions of dollars. Guess they still haven't connected the dots between their attitude toward customers and customers' attitudes toward their store.

Meh, I'm not reading too much into her comments about Two Peas. I get being a little put off by the tone, but I can totally see how that was their experience. I imagine they saw a LOT of shit in their time running the message boards. I know there were times they were woken and had to call police in the middle of the night because people were threatening suicide, there was tons of drama we know about - imagine how much drama there was behind the scenes they had to deal with. They had the ability to see all the ugly underbelly of the board, how people weren't who they said they were, the scams people ran, etc. I can see how that would really sour someone on running an online community and participating online in general. Look at how many of our long-time members were burned by people contacting employers or family members, and how many of them have left because of it.

It sounds like they're doing interesting things they find personally fulfilling and I wish them well. They brought a LOT of value to most of our lives by forming the community we all felt lost without, and why we're all on this board. I have Two Peas to thank for so many good experiences and positive relationships in my life, and most of that is the participants on the community, but it wouldn't exist without them.

I read a couple of the blog entries. I don't know, all that talk about being different, having a different kind of family...it seems like that arrogance thing that is based on desperate lack of self-confidence. The things that were listed as different weren't really all different in the real world-it was more...I don't know...an attempt at a humble brag to get approval.

It kind of was sad in a way. 

I think their blog tag line - where we challenge expected norms and live without limits - is sorta funny after you read a few entries.

In the food post they talk about not eating dairy, sugars, etc. In the Social Media post they talk about limiting which SM platforms their kids are on. They limit what apps the kids have access to.

Kinda contradictory.

That was hard to read. I didn't want to click on the link but curiousity got the best of me.

I wish them well but I can't handle blogs about how perfect people are, how their way is the right way. It just sounds like they are very full of themselves. Everything was "I, I, I and "we, we, we".