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I think What went right? would be my fave but Surprised? still manages to take the cake from time to time.

Hello ATRL! Most of you who were on ATRL before the (infamous) cleanup most likely know how we raised money several times to enable medical treatments and an easier life for one of our well adored members- @Joyride. The thread about Joyride's medical condition did not survive the purge, but I have been in contact with him ever since. Sometimes we just chat about random stuff in a friendly way, and sometimes (mostly) for medical consultations and check ups, because online consultations and check ups are also good alternative when you don't have the financial ability to afford one in real life. Some of you probably remember how he was told he only had three months to live because of bleedings and the hospitals inability to find what's causing it which prompted the ATRL moderators and @Ryan BTE to start a fundraiser. With ATRL's great help and as much as I was able to do - Joyride is still alive! I cannot and have no rights to disclose any private info, especially medical info about Joyride. It's his thing to do, if he wants to. What I can say is that his health condition is very bad (again) and he needs our collective help- donations to finally get medical procedures done, get medications and become as healthy as possible. What our friend needs now is our support, kindest, warmest words of support and love and donations so he can do all the medical procedures as soon as possible. I cannot do this alone although I would very much like to. Our dear friend's Paypal is: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/joaquinignaciod GFM: https://gofund.me/42240f15 How come the thread is from me? 1. I was in contact with Joyride through all this time and have been updating the moderators about it. 2. Due to severity of condition of our member and dear friend, the moderators ( @khalyan) and Ryan allowed me to create this topic. Again, please do not send any negative messages to Joyride at all but contact any moderator or Ryan himself. Also, there are members who remember the fundraisers and have had donated money themselves and can confirm this. P.S. I apologize for the grammar errors. English is not my first language. Update I (from Joyride) - Aug 28th ''Hey guys! I wanted to say thank you to everyone that has donated and taken the time to actually try to understand what is going on, Grumpy Cat share a few messages regarding my persona that left me heartbroken. I haven't wanted to share much of what is going on, because I truly felt like no one would listen to me. I've been neglected by my family and a whole health system, which all its done is take my money and left me waiting for an answer. even after all these months. Everything has taken an ugly turn and now I'm all by myself here, with no one to talk about this, and it really does feel lonely. I wish I could get an answer to what's actually going on, but no one has been able to provide that answer yet, I've been to countless doctors and all they say (and I'm not kidding here) is that they do not know what is going on. I've been entirely sincere as to where the money has been put to use, the amount of donations, etc. paying everything out of pocket with no insurance anymore is absolutely way too expensive, and I have to take my treatment as a "on and off" thing. I hope you guys understand and if you have any questions, please let me know, I'll gladly answer them. also wanted to send well wishes to all the people who have donated to my PayPal. I used my last resources in getting a sleep study, which, because of all the stress I've been going through, has given me insomnia along with very strong episodes of sleep apnea and it also showed that I'm only getting 23 minutes of REM sleep per night. so, yes, things keep getting worse and I don't know what to do. Like I mentioned in a thread before, I was planning on moving to Canada to see if I could find better help there, got the ticket, but sadly the person who bought the ticket for me sued me, literally, because the person who promised to pay for the ticket backed off, so now I can't leave the country.'' UPDATE II (from Joyride) -Sept 5th ''hello guys. my plans to go to Canada have complicated a bit as my friend who bought the tickets two months ago is asking for reparations and went to the authorities meaning there’s I won’t be able to leave, because I “committed a crime” according to their lawyer and I won’t be able to travel at last until I’m free of that. to the people who have sent me money, I assure you it’s been put to well use. I’ve been able to purchase the iron injections to keep things going. addidtionally, I’ve been taking iron orally, and just trying to feed my body with enough nutrients vitamins and vitamins. Right now I need to repeat the sleep study, along with a CPAP study too. And then buy one to take home so I can fix the issue of my sleep apnea or at least make it better, I also need to get a lumbar puncture to investigate if there are any problems there, which could lead to a lot of studies. Still, I would want to go to Canada and leave for good. If anyone has any connections or know anyone who is hiring, I’d appreciate it. I can work at a hair salon, as a translator, as an IT recruiter, or as an IT engineer, or a mixture of both. As another thing I’d link to update is that my vision is terrible. I have glasses, that’s not the problem, the problem is that my vision is completely fatigued and not doing well.'' UPDATE 3 (Sept 5th) - HELP JOY FIGHT CANCER! https://atrl.net/forums/topic/413545-help-joyride-25k-needed-for-the-surgery/ ''caught by surprise as I did want to keep this private - but I truly want to share a message to every single person who has helped me get here, even if the result is in no way what I expected, after going through several procedures, finding answers only became a reality after I could "pay" for it. a few days ago I was diagnosed with stage one colon cancer. I am very hesitant to even open up like this because I don't think I've even fully processed what is going on and I tend to be a very reserved person, whenever you see a comment of mine, it never has to do with my personal life or my experiences as a person, unless I feel like they could help someone. After a loss for the country that's been my "home", yet my own prison, I think it's time for me to finally accept that sometimes I just cannot deal with things the way I want to. staying silent has rarely ever helped me.''

ATRL went down for maintenance last night, giving me a sliver of hope that something was finally being changed. Colour me not shocked today when I hit multiple 503s and reply box issues. What’s the sitch??? Why won’t Ms 503 end her reign??? Can we at least get some transparency on what was / is being updated? It’s been years of this trauma already. Did we get any replies from moderation in the thread exposing the ad revenue? Are we able to open up donations towards a better server? We want SOLUTIONS

Not to insult anyone that works on this site cause I'm sure they work hard but honestly why is the site so glitchy? I'm sure this has been talked about at nauseum, but half the reason I'm barely on here anymore is the crashing is just so frustrating. I'm sure people are working hard on it. But am I doing something wrong? Should I be using a specific browser? It seemed once they changed to the new site (which looks lovely BTW) these issues started. I love all the new features but I hate that the site doesn't seem to work. Again, I'm barely on here but wanted to see if others had a solution for this of some kind. Again, am I doing something wrong?

Are any of y'all getting these? For context this was in Civics