Yeap, in order to make things more efficient, not to mention eliminating non-members from buying LTs at the group price by stealing someone’s slot, Sofirn has suspended all lantern purchases at all sites. The process for buying a lantern for the next batch has yet to be decided but there will be an announcement when things are finalized.
I only see you in for one when I searched for your name in my database and also by blf name in the main thread. The only post you made there is this post
Your are 820 in the list and so would not have gotten a PM for batch 1. Since Sofirn has suspended purchasing at the moment I think that it’s unlikely that any PM’s are going out at the moment. The only one who can say for sure is Sofrin (haven’t said anything to us either way).
We should be equally upset with the longtime BLF member who put his friend Alex up to it and gave him specific instructions on how to game the system. I would imagine Alex isn’t the only friend he helped abuse the GB.