[WillowTheWhisp]

The Hyndburnlife website was a joke from day one. Those of us who were there at the time will remember all to clearly how 99% of the people who tried to register on the forum couldn't get access and when those of us who coud finally get in tried to explain the problem to the moderators they said that it was the fault of the would-be members for having "the wrong cookies" !!!

When people did manage to register it then would not permit them to log-in! The moderators complained that those of us who were there and pointed this out were "spoiling all the fun for others" What fun? What others? The mods appeared not to understand the problems and referred to some obscure technical wizards who had created the site.

I tracked down said technical wizards (It wasn't difficult) and told them of the problems. They told me I had no business contacting them in the first place and should have referred my difficulties (my difficulties ???!!!)to the moderators of the forum but then also told me that I didn't know what I was talking about!

Now I do not claim to be a geek or god or guru like Entwisi but even a numpty like me seemed to know more about what I was talking about than the so-called techno-wizards who created the white elephant!

That money was a total waste and it's a scandal. If HBC had wanted a website they could have had one for a darned site cheaper and one that actually worked! The information pages were never updated. I got tired of trying to inform them of glaring mistakes on those, never mind the links for events and news that led to totally blank areas "to be added later" Who was going to add them? Nobody at HBC seemed to have a clue how! Now to learn that they'd still got Edith Dunstan on there doesn't surprise me at all but it does disgust me.

The money should have been used for something Hyndburn did need and not wasted on such a pile of useless If this sort of thing happened in industry there'd be an enquiry.