IslandLover

7 hours ago, Patjqm said:

see in the comments the video https://www.facebook.com/100064875510284/posts/pfbid0MA8MYd4n1e41e4dXozpCgctSZ5kLgwnWpokyQLsKoK5UqvP2ztWh1Jj9pXzHcv6Ll/

As I said before, it's a Road Rage incident that ended badly for one of the participants.  Nevertheless, I hope he recovers.  There is no need for violence on this scale.

8 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Not wishing to victim blame, but something triggered the altercation…. 
 

Definitely more to the story….   People, Thai, French, Western or anyone else just don’t get out of their vehicle  & kick the cr@p  out of someone else for no reason.
 

No excuse for their behaviour & the car is irrelevant.

A bad case of Road Rage, I suspect.  I do hope the Thai guy makes a good recovery and these two thugs get prosecuted.  No need for violence.

8 hours ago, monkfish said:

So seems it's true what CNN claimed they were let in. I have to admit all Thai officials ( Civil Servants) in their uniforms look like police. Also there are plenty of graphic pictures and videos on social media inside the building so who made those pictures?

First responders?  It won't be the first time, will it, if past experience is anything to go by.  

21 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

This is the drug dealing boyfriend’s statement
 

https://www.facebook.com/happeningnewssa/videos/940954116604233/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-UNK_GK0T-GK1C

He comes across as a fantasist and totally vile.  It's just a pity this Ashley ever got involved with him.  I've no idea if she's guilty or innocent but it does seem to me that it was entrapment on the part of the Thai police.  She has taken the fall for the others involved in this drug smuggling ring.  I presume none of them are still in Thailand, including the Russian fellow teacher and associate of Nettles?

2 hours ago, IslandLover said:

It's pretty obvious what it means.  Given the poor sanitation, overcrowding and lack of nutritious food in Thai prisons, it will destroy her physically.  Whether or not you think she deserves it is beside the point.

Sorry, my post appears to have been duplicated.  I got an error message the first time I posted it so I sent it again.  

On 8/21/2022 at 9:07 AM, Liverpool Lou said:

"...will tear her body down".

Huh?   What does that mean?   Have you ever been in a Thai prison?

It's pretty obvious what it means.  Given the poor sanitation, overcrowding and lack of nutritious food in Thai prisons, it will destroy her physically.  Whether or not you think she deserves it is beside the point.

On 8/21/2022 at 9:07 AM, Liverpool Lou said:

"...will tear her body down".

Huh?   What does that mean?   Have you ever been in a Thai prison?

It's pretty obvious what it means.  Given the poor sanitary conditions, overcrowding and lack of nutritious food in a Thai prison, it will destroy her physically. Whether or not you think she deserves it is beside the point.

On 8/21/2022 at 8:54 AM, TunnelRat69 said:

Thirty years in a Thai Prison will tear her body down as well as her mind............I think she will expire long before the sentence is over unfortunately.   Her only hope is a Royal Pardon or be allowed to do her time in Oz.

Oz?  She's South African.

5 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Very easy to OD on that stuff.

Prince and Tom petty, did just that.

If it had been legal, like all drugs should be. maybe, many people would still be alive today. ( Control on dosage). 

 

 

 

Fentanyl is legal.  They give it to terminal cancer patients, for example.  Prince and Tom Petty were legally prescribed Fentanyl (Tom Petty because he had a fractured hip) but both of them obtained extra supplies from sources other than their regular medical practitioner and OD'd as a result.

5 hours ago, UTH001 said:

Would be interesting to know what actually happened to the 'boyfriend'...

 

The boyfriend, aka Walter Mitty, allegedly moved to Ukraine to attend medical school.  He then claimed he was going to fight the Russians after they invaded Ukraine.  Now he's disappeared - probably hot-footed it back to the USA with his tail between his legs.

5 hours ago, bradiston said:

What's a thot?

Google it.  It's a very nasty, misogynist insult. ????

9 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

OMG, I started reading the boyfriend's story!!!

 

He says he's this international drug dealer from like the age of 2.

 

How can she not know this!!  He's bragging about it, but never told her???  

 

Now I'm 100% percent she knew everything.  He's way too obvious, and not very clever. 

According to the statement, the wannabe "El Chapo" was 12, not 2.  ????

3 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Drowning in a pool is most certainly possible and apparently this one was around 2 meters so it's feasible. But you question whether 2 people can drown. That is also feasible.

 

If one party got into difficulties and the other attempted to help them, it can be a double tragedy waiting to happen. A trained rescuer is taught to be very wary of the victim panicking and grabbing hold of the rescuer. This can result in both parties struggling to survive.

 

Trained rescuers learn to keep clear of the victim, even by pushing or kicking them away if necessary and endeavor to restrain the victim from behind. An untrained rescuer would not be aware of the dangers.

 

I can easily visualize how this tragedy occurred and yes, I have taken both Royal Life Saving Institute training and the PADI rescue diver courses.

 

 

 

Puts me in mind of Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell, the sisters who drowned in the swimming pool in an episode of EastEnders.  However, EE is a soap opera ......

7 hours ago, CharlieH said:

I would like to answer some of the speculation that has been posted recently.

The forum was subject to a DDoS attack., for those that dont know this is a "denial of service" attack, it is not a "hack" and no data has been compromised at any time.

The attack is believed to have been caused by a disgruntled former member who claimed resposibility for it via Facebook.

As a result of the attack increased security was required, that level of security  was not available on the current host so a move was necessary. The move to a new host and the subsequent rebuild is a time consuming process given the large databases involved and somewhat complex funtionality of the forum.

We are working to the best of our ability to restore and improve the forum and its security going forward.

So there it is, can we now please stop the speculation and rumours as we continue to work toward a better user experience. 

Please feel free to post any suggestions for improvements and notify any issues you may encounter.

 

Thanks for your understanding and  continued support.

 

Thanks for confirming what some of us suspected.  It must be a mammoth task to get things up and running again.  Kudos to the tech people. ???? 

11 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

I am still getting lots of "error 502"'s and "bad gateway"s

The security check certainly takes more then 5 seconds...

However full marks to those who are working on the problems as it is a good forum.

Yes, I also got the Error 502: Bad Gateway a few minutes ago.  It was OK yesterday.

5 hours ago, nrasmussen said:

I don't remember what date/time formats where used here before, but since this is a forum read by people with backgrounds from all over the world it really would be most appropriate to use ISO 8601 everywhere instead of ambiguous date formats and AM/PM nonsense.

Looks like it is the American date and time format now - month/day/year and AM/PM.  As far as I can tell, this is how it's always been, looking back at some old posts I had saved for posterity.  

18 hours ago, mstevens said:

I imagine there is sympathy from users towards ThaiVisa for what has happened with this site. The problem is, just what has happened? Some say a hack. Some say migrating to a new server. Some say a server crash. Just come out an be straight with us and tell us what has happened and what the plan is to get things back to normal. Do that and you will probably find most people are supportive. But so far, that doesn't seem to have happened or at least if there has been such an announcement, it has been buried deep in some sub-forum and most of us have not seen it and are therefore not aware of what is going on. And that just adds to the frustration of it all and may cause us to look for other forums or Facebook groups to use instead.

Am I right in thinking that ThaiVisa and the company that owns The Nation newspaper have parted ways?  I see no announcement to this effect but noticed recently that there has been no content from The Nation posted in the forums.

On the day I found out the website was down (about 3 days ago) I received a notification through Facebook that the ThaiVisa Facebook page had changed its name.  I saw immediately that the ThaiVisa logo had changed and if you look carefully, you can just make out the previous logo underneath (I still miss the old dark blue & yellow logo).  So what is really going on here?

8 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Not on mine!  Too thin and weak to view properly for these old eyes (only headlines and poster in a good font).  And the black alert notices are totally unreadable more than 3 inches from screen (total black). 

OK, you win ????.  The text on the black alert notices is indeed extremely feint.  I don't log in to TVF much nowadays so any changes have less of an impact for me.  I only noticed something was wrong when I stopped receiving the daily e-mail newsletters a few days ago.  I then checked the Facebook page and saw the post about the website hack, which incidentally has now been removed.

What really happened here will probably remain a mystery as no official announcement seems to be forthcoming from the Admins.  A website I was involved in was also taken down by malicious people so I know something about the problems caused.  It really isn't funny.

58 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Very little is normal.  Format changed.  Font changed.  Date changed.  Background changed.  Colors changed.  Alerts unreadable.  Font nearly so.  They either do not have previous settings available or have not had time to implement them yet (software has always been modified for this forum).

OK, I accept there have been other changes.  The forum certainly has a different look and layout now.  However, I see no problem with the fonts.  I guess it depends on what device you are using to view the forum. They are perfectly readable on my desktop monitor.

6 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

Still see all kinds of formatting errors today.

These formatting errors are to do with the lack of the user's avatar.  Once you upload your avatar again, the formatting returns to normal.

3 hours ago, Puccini said:

And it is now the third day of November in the year of the Lord twothousandandtwentyone:

"On 3/11/2021 at 6:34 AM, Bangkok Barry said"

Was the same time format used before the outage?

British English date format = 11th March 2021.  Duh. ????

1 hour ago, donnacha said:

No. If I was, the forum would not be back up now.

It has well over a dozen vulnerabilities. I would consecutively hammer them all, causing at least a couple of weeks of intermittent downtime to ensure that their Google rankings would never recover.

Such an action on my part is, however, unnecessary. They are perfectly capable of destroying this forum on their own.

Their current Cloudflare settings alone are going to decimate their traffic. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. They really haven't thought this through.

 

????????

2 hours ago, JetsetBkk said:

Thank you! I've got my Mustang back! Can't remember what the "Cover Photo" was though. ????

(Seems like the smileys need a little work...)

You're welcome!  I don't think we ever had a "Cover Photo" before.  I'm not sure what that is in the context of this forum.

7 hours ago, poohy said:

This was posted on the TV FB page yesterday seems you are right 

 ThaiVisa Servers are suffering from a DDOS attack at the moment. And it will continue so for 7 days. After 7 days they will have the chance to correct the behavior of their snowflakes moderators and it won't happen again. Else, I will pull the plug on ThaiVisa Forum for them
You see how they delete the comments which they don't like? Second day of my DDOS attack. I am giving them a holiday of 7 day. Those mods who feel they are god, now will feel like they are nothing without their pathetic forum ????

That's what I saw too, along with a graphic (meme) with Chinese writing on it saying China has nuclear bombs too.