Looking for a BID community after BIDRemedy?
This page is for former BIDRemedy members, people returning to the wider BID community, and anyone seeking BID peer support for the first time. talking.bid is a new, independent community - it is not connected to BIDRemedy.
Where is BIDRemedy?
BIDRemedy - commonly abbreviated BIDR - went offline in May 2026. There was no warning, no announcement, no archive, and no transition plan. People logged in one day and found nothing there. If you arrived here typing where is BIDRemedy, BIDR down, BIDRemedy not loading, or BIDR shut down - that is what happened. It has not been back since.
Is BIDRemedy coming back?
That decision belongs to its owners, and no timeline has been made public. talking.bid takes no position on it. Former members have dispersed across different spaces, and some have joined talking.bid.
Is talking.bid connected to BIDRemedy?
No. talking.bid is a new and independently operated community. It was created after BIDRemedy became unavailable, but it is not operated by BIDR, does not represent its former owners or moderators, and is not an official continuation of that site.
Some talking.bid members previously belonged to BIDR, BFF, or other BID spaces. Others are encountering the BID community for the first time. The community is intended for all people living with BID, not only former members of any particular forum.
What is talking.bid?
talking.bid is an independent peer-support community for people living with BID. It is one place where former members and newcomers can find BID peer support, across every expression: amputation identity, paralysis and wheelchair identity, sensory identity (blind, deaf), pretenders, simming, surgery discussion, coping with The Wave, and everyday peer support.
You may encounter familiar people here, while also meeting members from other communities and people participating for the first time.
How is talking.bid different from BIDRemedy?
Two things you should know:
- Infrastructure is durable. The forum runs on Cloudflare Workers + D1 - low cost, no single owner-billing dependency. A single payment failure or owner departure cannot take it offline the way it took BIDR and BFF offline.
- Public surface is minimal. The forum itself is private and unindexed. The only public pages are this one, what BID is, the community history, and a few expression-specific landing pages. Members talk in private.
What about BIIDForFreedom (BFF)?
BFF closed earlier, in 2024. Many former BFF members had already moved to BIDR before it went offline. talking.bid is not a continuation of BFF either - people searching BFF replacement, BIIDForFreedom successor, or where did BFF go are welcome here, but as members of talking.bid rather than as part of a revived forum. The full timeline, including Usenet, Yahoo Groups, the fighting-it mailing list, and transabled.org, is on the community history page.
What else is still out there?
- r/biid on Reddit - public subreddit, smaller, useful for first contact but limited depth.
- Private Discord servers - several survived the BIDR shutdown, mostly invite-only. Ask in the forum if you are looking for one.
- bodyintegritydysphoria.com - the other legitimate BID site, clinical/informational in tone rather than peer support.
What do I do now?
Three steps, in order:
- Register here with an email. Verification is one click.
- Introduce yourself in the introductions room. Say as much or as little as you like - whether you are coming from another forum or have never talked about BID before.
- Read the community guidelines. The TL;DR at the top is the short version.
Although previous forums may no longer be available, opportunities for connection and support remain. Whether you are returning to the wider BID community or joining one for the first time, you are welcome here.