We rebuilt our website so the next person searching for answers finds us faster! We have always understood the urgency needed when people need help. Here is what changed, and what didn’t.
If you visit Clusterbusters.org, you will see that things now look very different. After months of work by our volunteers and staff, we are proud to launch a completely redesigned main website, Clusterbusters.org, along with a brand-new companion site, ClusterHeadacheAltTreatments.org. This companion site, launching in full at the end of October, is where we will have all of the information about alternative treatments for cluster headache.
Why we did it?
The average person with cluster headache waits 6 years for an accurate diagnosis. Most of that time is spent searching alone, often in the middle of the night, for anything that explains or treats the pain. We built the new Clusterbusters.org website with this person in mind. It is faster, clearer, works on mobile devices, and is designed so someone searching the internet for help can more easily find Clusterbusters and our amazing community.
After collecting data, information, stories, and research, for close to 30 years, it was becoming difficult to navigate our website to find things people with cluster headache need. Both new sites will most likely end up having equal amounts of content - and when all this information is stored on one site, it’s like reading War and Peace or the Cluster Headache Odyssey. We’ve now separated War from Peace. As they should be.
A Main site built for finding answers
Clusterbusters.org is now focused on the essentials: understanding cluster headache, getting an accurate diagnosis, learning about accessible treatments, finding a knowledgeable doctor, joining research studies, and connecting with our support groups, community and events. Quickly finding a sense of peace and hope.
A dedicated home for alternative treatments
Alternative treatments have been part of Clusterbusters from the very beginning. This extensive body of work and knowledge deserves a home of its own. Our new companion site, ClusterHeadacheAltTreatments.org, will bring together the history, research, and patient experience behind alternative treatments for cluster headache.
Because of our expanding alternative treatment research and legislative work, we need all of this content to be easily found and understood by people outside of our community. They do not need treatment details or learn the how-tos. They need to read the data and content that will educate them and provide the things needed to make them legal and accessible to the community.
ClusterHeadacheAltTreatments.org is starting as a simple landing page. In the next few weeks we will be transferring and reorganizing all the alternative treatment information to this site. We plan to launch the full site by the end of October. If you need any information about or support using alternative treatments over the next few weeks, please email us at: Help@Clusterbusters.org.
The forum will now require logging in
The community Forum will remain on Clusterbusters.org, but being a registered user is now required to read any of the Forum content. If you are already a registered user, nothing should change for you. If you need to register, the process is simple and free. Register for the Forum.
If you are a registered user and you forgot your password, you may need to reset it. Your Forum account, posts, and history remain intact.
PLEASE NOTE: THE FORUM IS CURRENTLY DOWN (last updated Oct. 2, 5:40 PM ET) due to a technical issue, and we're working to restore access as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. We'll share an update as soon as it's back up.
What has not changed
Alternative treatment research and education are vital parts of what Clusterbusters has always done and will always do. This is why we built an entire site dedicated to this topic, rather than having it sprawl across our Main website. It also allows us to share a clearer, more focused message with lawmakers, researchers, and others who want to learn more, which is more important than ever as we advocate for legislation that expands access to these treatments.
Thank you
I also want to share that this website redesign and splitting has been an enormous undertaking. This project was built by volunteers who live with cluster headache or love someone who does. This type of project usually takes at least a year… often dragging on to multiple years. But our INCREDIBLE volunteers and staff completed all of this work, soup to nuts in less than six months. Truly, the cluster headache community is one-of-a-kind and we are changing the world!
If you find a broken link or something that doesn’t look right, please tell us at Help@Clusterbusters.org.
If you're joining us at the Clusterbusters Annual Conference in Rosemont, October 8 to 11, we'll share more info about these website changes. We’d love to hear your feedback, as our work continues to help people with cluster headache to live the best lives they can.
Better days are coming for us and the generations of people with cluster headache that will follow us…
Bob Wold, Founder, Clusterbusters