Monday, June 29, 2020

Breath Control Network disappeared again

The Breath Control Network is gone again. Specifically, the URL for the site has expired. This happened in June 2019 too. I know of no other way to get to the contents, which are hosted on a social network site. It might be possible using its URL if one knew the specific account to add to the end to get there.

BCN has been a very poor site since before the last URL expiration. Features have dropped off (such as web chat and user icons for new users), the database for images and videos is borked beyond repair, and the timelines regularly include "thumbnails" that are more than one screen long. Server downtime is frequent. There was talk of the whole site being redeveloped and moved to a different server, but there has been no news on that in many months. Not surprisingly, longtime users have drifted away, since very little is happening in the BCN.

I don't intend to be mean. The gay breath control "community" is not big enough to attract a patron with deep pockets and computing resources to make a full-featured site with constant uptime. It's also hard to envision getting money from many users, since guys are understandably skittish about putting not just money but their personal details on the line to support a site. It seems that the best we can do is fly under the radar on some existing kinky site, hoping that nothing goes wrong.

Still, when we have so few options (at least two other sources gone in the last year), to have the main one disappear too doesn't leave us breathless kinkazoids much.

P.S.: If anyone knows what the URL would/might be, if it's possible to access it directly from the server, please share.