Hi everyone. it's been quite a while since there's been much activity on the forums...basically because, well, I broke the new member registration function and haven't gotten around to fixing it.

The good news is, I am finally working on the background stuff and hope to have the forum up and running soonish. Although we have an active Facebook Page now, and I've finally gotten around to establishing a presence on Google+ I know that a lot of people would like a place to interact with fellow bento fans away from the usual big sites. So the forums will be back, although I'll have to see how much stress they will place on the servers. (Full disclosure: I'm struggling a bit to keep up with the running costs of the site, especially since I'm trying to catch up from my long absence.)

However, in order to reduce the time needed to maintain the sites, I've decided to get rid of the individual member blogs feature. There are plenty of places where you can set up a free or very inexpensive blog, and only a few people were using the feature anyway.

So - if you do have a blog on this site, you have until May 15, 2013 to get down any content you have on them. After that they will be gone from the site.

Please let me know if you have any questions!