Constant 403 Errors

[Pilotman]

why are 'support' so quiet????  Come on, explanation please.  

[polpott]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

why are 'support' so quiet????  Come on, explanation please.  

Looking for a shilling for the meter.

[poohy]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

why are 'support' so quiet????  Come on, explanation please.  

Don't hold your breath !

[robblok]

18 hours ago, guzzi850m2 said:

Thankfully there are other things in life than Thaivisa forums, 555

Really i was getting the shakes and i was starting to hallucinate. It was really bad I think heroin is safer then Thaivisa ????

[polpott]

2 hours ago, topt said:

I use Brave and Firefox but Firefox is set up even tighter than Brave.

Can now read posts with Brave but not post, reply or read notifications - same with Firefox. 

However, with brave, if you switch off Shields (which allows trackers and ads) it works normally. 

 

No way will I continue to post on Thai Visa if that is what is needed. Not just because of the obscene amount of ads that have appeared but having to allow 3rd party trackers. 

I use Brave and a VPN connected to the UK. No access yesterday, some access today but unable to post or react to posts. Reverted to Google Chrome and can post but still getting error messages with every other attempt to load a page. Changed VPN to Australia and now no problems, other than interminable pop ups. Reason I changed to Brave in the first place. Now need to remember to change VPN to UK before watching UK TV, which I do more often than logging on to TV.

 

PIA which I'm not willing to put up with. Thanks TV for returning me to lurker status. Bye.

[ThailandRyan]

Still occurring as of now, has to be a server issue or as said elsewhere in here the censors are up and running looking for any reason...lol

[polpott]

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

Still occurring as of now, has to be a server issue or as said elsewhere in here the censors are up and running looking for any reason...lol

Server issue wouldn't stop you logging on via Brave but not Google. It's deliberate attempt to stop people using Ad blockers which most of us wouldn't do were it not for pop ups.

[Boomer6969]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

why are 'support' so quiet????  Come on, explanation please.  

My guess is that they are looking for ways to counter ad blocking.

[Golden Triangle]

My VPN is from Windscibe, I'm connected to London, with VPN on I cannot connect to TVF, if I switch my VPN off I can connect no problem, I have tried to connect to Perth, same result, VPN on, no go. Any ideas anyone ?

 

Have they tweaked the programme to block VPN's ??

[billd766]

20 hours ago, topt said:

Same here. Now using a vpn and still getting it but refreshing the page eventually seems to bring it up. 

For me it went down about 12:30 pm on Monday 11 January. I was using Opera and Windows with a VPN, with or without the VPN, it made no difference. The same result with Google Chrome.

 

I suspect that the techies have been "upgrading" the site without telling anybody.

 

As a retired engineer I can quote the essential maxim.

 

If it works, then don't screw around with the intent of "improving" it. There is another less polite way of saying it, but they both mean the same thing.

 

If you absolutely HAVE to do it, then put a notice up, giving at least 2 days advance warning.

[robblok]

15 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

My guess is that they are looking for ways to counter ad blocking.

could be, i would not use it if the ads were not too invasive. Unfortunately they made the forum so slow and unworkable. I don't mind looking at adds but not if its too much. 

[Susco]

16 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

My guess is that they are looking for ways to counter ad blocking.

 

I wish them good luck with that haha

[billd766]

17 hours ago, 2530Ubon said:

CloudFront - It's another thing from Jeff Bezos, so not surprising it doesn't work. Venturing out into every industry isn't panning out so well.

I don't think it was CloudFront as the only site I have this problem is with TVF.

[billd766]

16 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Have you not considered that like most of us they were unable to access the forum.

 

Its been reported and is being worked on.

The problem is that whatever they have tried to obviously hasn't worked properly. I assume that it was not properly tested before it was installed.

 

If they were unable to access the forum then there was a serious problem with the task they undertook.

[Boomer6969]

1 minute ago, robblok said:

could be, i would not use it if the ads were not too invasive. Unfortunately they made the forum so slow and unworkable. I don't mind looking at adds but not if its too much. 

Indeed, without ad blocker the screens look totally messy. Also they, I mean TV's advertising customers, should see that too many adds crammed into one screen are neutralising each other. And as a forum member I'd rather leave than use it within add blocker.

[Susco]

4 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I don't think it was CloudFront as the only site I have this problem is with TVF.

TVF uses cloudfront obviously, as that was mentioned in the error message

[polpott]

3 minutes ago, Susco said:

TVF uses cloudfront obviously, as that was mentioned in the error message

I can think of another very similar forum that uses cloudfront. Zero problems over the last 24 hours.

[transam]

16 hours ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

I find it very funny that no one from support have answered in over 6 hours and have any kind of explanation for this happening. Rather useless to have this section in the forum.

Cos there end don't work either......????

[billd766]

16 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Nothing quick about it, It worked for me after 7 hours of no access, due to my own ability to find a work around which was then passed on to others.

There should have been no need for you to find a work around.

 

I assume that if you found a workaround you would have passed it around on the forum, which very few people could access and would therefore not have been able to read it.

[Pumpuynarak]

Well its all working fine for me now. I did turn off my ad blocker and VPN and its working fine with no ads showing, go figure......

[polpott]

13 minutes ago, transam said:

Cos there end don't work either......????

So a number of us have found workarounds to access the site but the Techies can't? I wouldn't pay them in brass washers.

[transam]

1 minute ago, polpott said:

So a number of us have found workarounds to access the site but the Techies can't? I wouldn't pay them in brass washers.

You still use brass washers, blimey, you're older than I thought......

[polpott]

Just now, transam said:

You still use brass washers, blimey, you're older than I thought......

Fooled many a one armed bandit with brass washers in my time.

[kingofthemountain]

19 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Indeed, without ad blocker the screens look totally messy. Also they, I mean TV's advertising customers, should see that too many adds crammed into one screen are neutralising each other. And as a forum member I'd rather leave than use it within add blocker.

I confirm

 

i don't use add blocker, as i think it's normal for a forum with free access for the viewer

to find another way to pay for the bills.

 

However at one point it's becoming a viewer's rape

 

it was already a pain to try to find the forum among the adds, now since few days another

level to close with an intrusive page coming when you change from a topic to another.

 

I have noticed a big decrease in the activity in the last months (With covid and a lot of people

confined at home, it should be an increase) i presume a lot of the members think enough is enough?

[Susco]

4 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

it was already a pain to try to find the forum among the adds, now since few days another

level to close with an intrusive page coming when you change from a topic to another.

 

You have to forgive the new owners. I think they have no other choice, as they got raped.......or is it ripped

[CharlieH]

33 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I don't think it was CloudFront as the only site I have this problem is with TVF.

And how many of those others sites you speak of use the Invision platform ? Sometimes 3rd parties have to deal with issues and handle things not the end user who can only request assistance when an error appears and join the queue.

[Dagfinnur Traustason]

28 minutes ago, transam said:

Cos there end don't work either......????

Alittle bit to late with your comment, right ????

Anyway, as you can see, there were many members that managed to write here during the problem. Just maybe it would be possible to believe that a technician would be able to make it work too. ????

But I know, technichian is just a title in this country. Have absolutely not anything to do with knowledge.

[petermik]

Adblocker turned off and all is good again...and no adds...will it last though

[transam]

22 minutes ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

Alittle bit to late with your comment, right ????

Anyway, as you can see, there were many members that managed to write here during the problem. Just maybe it would be possible to believe that a technician would be able to make it work too. ????

But I know, technichian is just a title in this country. Have absolutely not anything to do with knowledge.

You are assuming the back room boys are Thai, or that TVF hardware is actually in LOS.

 

If folk are pointing to VPN fixing the prob, then that is not a perfect fix is it, cos many of us don't use a VPN, a site fault is exactly that, a prob to be fixed, and it has...????

 

[Golden Triangle]

Just turned my VPN supplied ad blocker off, I can now get it to load, but all the annoying ads are back,  buggar.

 

I did try about 12 different VPN sites around the world including Perth, no joy with any of them until I turned my ad blocker off.