It was a rough time for bakers, there was resistance to fastjack taking over the board, 8bit supported, then didn't, the resistance led to a split with many bakers leaving and going to another board, FJ stopped notables, honestly, I never read the notables till I started baking, I capped what I needed, it was rough because there were even less bakers at that time, that is when the whole bakers union thing really took hold, bout the time you left, when I started baking they complained about my being a union baker, I was just barely a baker, kek The fight was to get anons to participate rather than bakers taking care of it all,
when the board came back up in Nov bakers showed up but had problems baking because the board was very unstable, I seemed not to have that problem, baked through lots of "turbulence", still can, easier with Tor at times, I'm not as fast as i was then, IRL is more serious than before, but I hold the "anons need to nom" thing from last summer