for the past week or so when I visited this site,it said I got permanently banned. I dont know how that happened but things seem OK now.

Yes, me. It seems to have rectified now. I have messaged a moderator to see if they are having technical issues.
Hugs

Yes, I was banned "permanently", and based on the posts on the board, everyone else was too. There are no new posts between Sept 5 and yesterday. I was quite upset because I couldn't think of any reason why I had been shut out, except that maybe it had been an accident and my IP was banned while they were trying to get rid of those scammers who had been targeting the forums.

I was banned too, and though I didn't need to post anything I was concerned for those who need support through ongoing healing. I think the issue was related to pinpin deleting recently created spam accounts. Glad to see that the site is accessible now. The board admin email link on the home page didn't work and I had no way to contact anyone related to the forum.

My next step was going to be a temporary VPN to access the site, but it returned just before I did so.

I tried a VPN several times and that didn't work either. :-/

That makes sense, now that we know that all IP's were blocked, lol.