I had checked while it was up and didn't realize they had a message about shutting down. Grabbed my deposit address and had some coins sent there. A lot of my money is tied up in BB and I plead with the operators to turn it back on with ample warning of when that will be and when it will be shut off again. When I checked BB two days ago, I figured the reason I wasn't able to reach it was because of Tor acting up. News like this travels slowly, and I hope the BB team will do the right thing by allowing their faithful users to withdraw their funds. I would not consider the current situation to have been fair, and as others mention, is likened to an exit scam. From what I gather, though, the BB has shown that is not what they're about. Knock on wood.

I'll continue checking back here. Blender, if you send me a PM asking for the deposit address, I will happily oblige. These losses are devastating for me and many others. In fact, I will commit to donating $50 to BB if I am ever able to recover those coins.

Thank you

EDIT: I just stupidly locked myself out this account. Will create another account with user foreignone82 that I'll be able to log in with from here on out.