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Pulsar

Diamond Member
Mar 3, 2003
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LOL. I don't even remember the guy's name but they made him moderator of Discussion Club. Then people accused him of being biased so he rage quit.

I remember that. The initial premise was interesting - no insults, rational discussion, blah blah. But for that to happen you need to chuck out the batshit crazy posters, and he either wouldn't or couldn't. Dissenting viewpoints is one thing, but they let people continually be intellectually dishonest like certainly people and their religious insanity so it just kept degenerating. Now it should just be deleted and merged with off topic.
 

Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
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I used to complain about the sub-forums, then the forum format change. But now 95% of the time I can't even get to the forums even if I wanted to. How many other people are getting the ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR? A long thread in the forum technical issues page has gotten nowhere. If I can't log in most of the time, how many other people are trying and giving up?

This problem was occasional a few months ago. But each passing week it gets worse and worse. I just can't get pings from 174.76.226.162 or 174.76.226.148. I have tried on multiple computers, in different cities, with different service providers and no ping most of the time.

I've been getting that with icecat mobile. In fact, it just happened. Got notice to 'restart to complete changes', and it works now. Happens very rarely with firefox mobile. If it starts again, I'll try to nail down the issue. httpseverywhere is a possible culprit.
I know it seems like this problem is falling on deaf ears but if they don't know it's still happening they'll never look into it further.
I'd suggest posting in that thread in TFI as they'll never see it here.

http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/ssl-error-no-cypher-overlap.2483377/
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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I know it seems like this problem is falling on deaf ears but if they don't know it's still happening they'll never look into it further.
I'd suggest posting in that thread in TFI as they'll never see it here.

http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/ssl-error-no-cypher-overlap.2483377/
I don't think they care. It works for the preponderance of people, and that's good enough. We'd still have only two shitastic themes if not for community volunteers that did the work.

Btw, disabling httpseverywhere didn't seem to help. Not sure why icecat breaks, but firefox works.
 

lefenzy

Senior member
Nov 30, 2004
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I myself am not good at posting in forums. I always end up reading.

ATOT is slow these days probably because of Reddit. But there are a lot of fora that are still thriving if big boards is any indication.

Looking through this thread, how again did people get elite member? I don't even remember.
 

lefenzy

Senior member
Nov 30, 2004
231
4
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Neogaf bans people by the bucket loads and has a months long waiting period for membership, and yet it's very active. I suppose it helps to have only four sub forums.
 

A Casual Fitz

Diamond Member
May 16, 2005
4,649
1,018
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Youth. Forums aren't what they used to be. Most of the people on here were nerds 15 plus years ago. Computers aren't as fun to talk about anymore.
 
Reactions: Zstream
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I don't think they care. It works for the preponderance of people, and that's good enough. We'd still have only two shitastic themes if not for community volunteers that did the work.

Btw, disabling httpseverywhere didn't seem to help. Not sure why icecat breaks, but firefox works.

I think that was happening to me a while back, it started sporadically but then it was literally every time I came here, happened on Chrome and Firefox (and Edge too if I remember right). I googled some things to try to fix it but they didn't work. Then one day it was just resolved and haven't had an issue since. I never disabled HTTPSEverywhere or ad blocking or even changed the scripts I was allowing with NoScript.
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
59,258
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I think that was happening to me a while back, it started sporadically but then it was literally every time I came here, happened on Chrome and Firefox (and Edge too if I remember right). I googled some things to try to fix it but they didn't work. Then one day it was just resolved and haven't had an issue since. I never disabled HTTPSEverywhere or ad blocking or even changed the scripts I was allowing with NoScript.
Same, I was having it, and I stopped getting it, still using both of those.
 

Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
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9,858
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Psst (you and I are the last two posters there).
Yeah, i know. The problem stopped for me. The only point i was trying to make is that if they don't know the problem still exists for people then they won't try to fix it & i'll bet they're not reading this thread, that's all.


lefenzy, about the elite status, i think members were nominated & then some sort of vote was taken.
 

Ketchup

Elite Member
Sep 1, 2002
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I do recommend a new thread in on of the Forum Issues categories if you are still seeing these issues. Those threads do get responses.
 

nexus5rocks

Senior member
Mar 12, 2014
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I disagree as to the extent of the effect of social media. Other forums I am a part of are thriving as AT gradually dies. But then those other forums don't lifetime ban many of their most prolific and popular users. Users generate the content on forums, and by getting rid of them, you're gradually causing the forums to die off. I'd say more, but then I'll get banned again under the much abused "mod callout" rule.

I'll say this though: I've never seen mods on other sites generate so much hate that users went out and created their own forums. And AT users went out and created three other forums by my last count.



I learned early on that the guys from Purch do not give a s--t about improving these forums. They'll just ride it into the toilet and blame something else, like the rise of social media or something.

QFT.
Unban TFP.
 

deustroop

Golden Member
Dec 12, 2010
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I see this on-line info:

Total: 6,860 (members: 275, guests: 6,462, robots: 123)
What are these ? The undead ?
 

JimKiler

Diamond Member
Oct 10, 2002
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I don't understand why we have the watched threads option, it does not work for most of the threads i post in. Even threads i create do not show up on my watched threads list.
 

Mike64

Platinum Member
Apr 22, 2011
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I don't understand why we have the watched threads option, it does not work for most of the threads i post in. Even threads i create do not show up on my watched threads list.
Works for me. Have you checked your "alert preferences"?
 

JimKiler

Diamond Member
Oct 10, 2002
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Works for me. Have you checked your "alert preferences"?

I realized Alerts do the same thing as the Watched Threads link and use that now but does your Watched Threads work? Mine does not 90% of the time.
 

Mike64

Platinum Member
Apr 22, 2011
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I realized Alerts do the same thing as the Watched Threads link and use that now but does your Watched Threads work? Mine does not 90% of the time.
I guess I was conflating the two since I mostly either count on the alerts for threads/forums I'm "watching", or check "my content" to keep an eye on threads I've posted in but that haven't had recent activity. I'm not sure about the "Watched Threads" link itself, offhand I don't remember ever checking it before, but I'll try to remember to keep an eye on it over the course of the day and get back to you...
 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
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Speaking of MIA folks anyone heard from MonGrel? Been gone since early November.
 
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