I'm not getting it either, and neither are a lot of people. Playpool.com was once an awesome site to visit. As far as their message board, will you really miss it? I mean the place sort of went down hill, and Ed really did not have the time to keep up the site like he used to. It had not been updated since December of last year. Their message board was more a trash talking chat room than anything else. Very rarely would there be anything more than gambling trash talk, which is sad because the site was very well put together,and informative, especially the pool hall finder and the articles section. Last I heard, Ed was transitioning in his life and had moved. It's my guess that when Ed gets settled in, the site will be back up.