The way expertise is charged to fault find,  better off trashing the site.  Start from fresh.  Install new forum script and away you go.

Nothing is repaired anymore.  Your phone breaks.  Throw it in the bin. Buy another.

If I had the time and drive, I'd setup a free hosted site and make a new forum but instead I'll leave it up to someone else.  Haha like most things that don't get done. 

It's a pity as many will get discouraged from visiting or staying on the TV forum due to the very slow speed.

Very, very slow today. I load up a few topics in multiple tabs and then prepare coffee before coming back to read them... and that's with a 300 Mbps download speed.

This is called taking the piss

It is a lot of work to run a website. I have and it is not fun.

 

However, technical issues aside, maybe this is a bottleneck issue as all data is seen by Big Brother through BKK before it goes to Singapore, etc etc. Dunno!

I certainly hope that they fix it soon.I miss many of the familiar faces that I used to see around here.

I usually give up after a couple of minutes. TV is unusable now.

2 days have had no Thai visa at all , and it’s very slow.

Unexplained slowness.

 

Is it possible that the Junta is downloading everything ready to pounce, and send many of the posters to the monkey?

4 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Unexplained slowness.

 

Is it possible that the Junta is downloading everything ready to pounce, and send many of the posters to the monkey?

Was surfing Thai Visa a few days ago when my laptop completely froze. Tried restarting but wouldn't restart. Just got a fatal error message. After a number of attempts, I had to reinstall Windows 10. 

 

After a couple of days of getting everything back to as was and making a couple of setting changes, TV is now running better than it has for a while. Not perfect, had a "502" this morning, but better.

 

One thing I noticed was that I accessed TV from IE after the install and it was really slow and glitchy. Had the same problem when I first joined a few months ago and switched to accessing it via Microsoft Edge which gave me a near perfect TV at the time (pages always were and probably always will be a bit slow to load). Did this again and had a noticeable improvement again.

 

When my laptop crashed, it made me wonder if the whole issue is the result of some sort of virus infecting the site. Surely not...…..

 

the forum is still extremely slow at :02 minutes and :32 minutes after the hour. lasts for about four minutes I think. 

 

you can set your watch by it.

 

and then you can post VERY FAST after these periods. 

 

18 minutes ago, Spidey said:

When my laptop crashed, it made me wonder if the whole issue is the result of some sort of virus infecting the site. Surely not..

The problem is a 'packeting' problem. The data gets sent to the servers and is broken up into packets (sections). The 'packets' then have to be put together and be sent out to all the individual devices. They are simply not reconnecting as they should be.

 

Easy to sort out but I've no work-permit. In fact, just giving advice is dodgy here.

 

Who will look after my cats, my daughter, my koi carp when I'm behind bars or having AA (attitude adjustment)?

27 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Unexplained slowness.

 

Is it possible that the Junta is downloading everything ready to pounce, and send many of the posters to the monkey?

yes

3 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

 

The problem is a 'packeting' problem. The data gets sent to the servers and is broken up into packets (sections). The 'packets' then have to be put together and be sent out to all the individual devices. They are simply not reconnecting as they should be.

 

Easy to sort out but I've no work-permit

Used to work on packet switching systems with BT. If there was a problem with the packet switching it was invariably a hardware problem. Simplicity itself just to swap the relevant card.

 

If you don't have a work permit, just do it at night, Immigration work 9-5. 555

37 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

 

The problem is a 'packeting' problem. The data gets sent to the servers and is broken up into packets (sections). The 'packets' then have to be put together and be sent out to all the individual devices. They are simply not reconnecting as they should be.

 

Easy to sort out but I've no work-permit. In fact, just giving advice is dodgy here.

 

Who will look after my cats, my daughter, my koi carp when I'm behind bars or having AA (attitude adjustment)?

That's easy for you to say when your motto is Rough Engineering Made Easy. Merry Xmas from a VMC. Arte et Marte.

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

the forum is still extremely slow at :02 minutes and :32 minutes after the hour. lasts for about four minutes I think. 

 

you can set your watch by it.

 

and then you can post VERY FAST after these periods. 

That is what I am getting now. 

 

My problem is is that I reply to a post, click submit now, then look at the time.

 

Stupid boy Pike.

3 hours ago, vogie said:

That's easy for you to say when your motto is Rough Engineering Made Easy. Merry Xmas from a VMC. Arte et Marte.

Crabfat fairy's are the best.

I've never seen these type of problems on other high traffic forums

 

I think they use vBulletin or similar but I'm not a web designer so I don't know if that would fix this....

 

Or maybe turn off all the ads for a day and see if the forum becomes more usable..... But i guess that suggestion would be unpopular with the owner ????

 

That pulldown advertising tab thing on the top centre  is the most annoying by far imo 

 

 

I am experiencing problems with notifications

I click on the bell icon to see notifications  and/or respond to quotes, and the progress wheel spins and spins until I give up and move on. 

6 minutes ago, sirineou said:

I am experiencing problems with notifications

I click on the bell icon to see notifications  and/or respond to quotes, and the progress wheel spins and spins until I give up and move on. 

And that probably happens at 02-07 and 32-38 past the hour. A sad but known issue within the current problem.

Still painfully slow to load.

On 11/14/2018 at 4:34 PM, janclaes47 said:

Maybe they should add some more ads to pay for faster servers

look down left when you try to open page, indeed much CRAP from external servers is been added...Ads, more ads...javacode...

 

$$$

The quick navigation link is still missing.

This was a useful facility - will we ever get it back I wonder?

A minor problem compared to the other problems that the site seems to be having but irritating nonetheless.

Totally unreliable, slow or not loading pages. This has been going on for quit a long time and Nations needs to fix this. ThaiVisa has become just a sales tool for Nations it would seem. Very disappointed.

On 12/19/2018 at 11:33 PM, Vacuum said:

Probably against the rules, so I can't tell you. I'll send you  a PM though (which acually isn't private).

I'd still like that PM, but who knows, maybe you sent it and that doesn't work either?

On 12/20/2018 at 3:53 AM, stud858 said:

If I had the time and drive, I'd setup a free hosted site and make a new forum but instead I'll leave it up to someone else.  

With all the digital nomads out there it is distinctly in the realm of possibility that someone with the time and drive is thinking (or acting on) the same thing.

That's how competition works.

If Thaivisa continues to allow its brand's reputation to slide, it risks its future.

 

I'm a fan of this forum, but gotta wonder what the commitment level is to fix these issues, going into week 7 of trouble.

 

If this forum were my investment, at this point I would be building the new site to replace this buggy one asap. 

Im convinced even the legs have fallen of The Forum Support Desk.????

3 hours ago, doctormann said:

The quick navigation link is still missing.

This was a useful facility - will we ever get it back I wonder?

A minor problem compared to the other problems that the site seems to be having but irritating nonetheless.

Same thing with the post #numbers.

Thing that annoys me is that our Son ran websites for big companies, i ask him whats up, hes flicked through it and he just laughs n walks off.

did anybody realized if they fixed the problem we wouldn't have anything to complain about???? life would be so boring....