@Jon Eckart not any of which I am aware. It would be nice to get something regularly scheduled again, but alas, many of us have other demands on our time.
Okay so V confirmed that messages are sending..... Tenchi if you see this, I am having trouble with the site. Julie says she can't send private messages either. V says my profile is missing from her end. Is this related to the microsoft thingy? I changed my e-mail because I was having trouble with Gmail and now the recovery e-mail hasn't made it.
I talked to another member and she said that the problems with the site might be in part due to that massive Microsoft outage that happened yesterday.....
Walled garden refers to corporate social media. The issues are back-end issues (code that runs things as opposed to front-end being the visual part of web design)