What happened to the forum?

[faraday]

Is the lovely mod team the same?

 

Thankfully the adorable Crossy is still here, but perhaps they've been slimmed down. ????

[faraday]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

well at least it is not purple anymore...

Why....you not been using it then?? ????????????????

[simple1]

What's happened with the very useful Medical Forum?

[misterjames]

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

 

So HK immigration need to be on the lookout for "misterjames" or "crossy"?

Seriously, AseanNow is an anonymous forum we don't know who you are, we could be compelled to release your IP address but there's really nothing else we hold.

Well usernames along with our account data / posts could be linked to an individual via Chinese immigration for example.

 

I am not planning to visit Hong Kong or China, but I think the users that are should be aware and decide if they want to continue to participate or not.

[faraday]

Not been able to post emoji's

[Crossy]

5 minutes ago, simple1 said:

What's happened with the very useful Medical Forum?

 

Here https://aseannow.com/forum/23-health-and-medicine/

 

It took me a minute to find it too.

 

[Crossy]

2 minutes ago, faraday said:

Not been able to post emoji's

 

Yeah, it would be nice if they fixed the "Default" emojis.

[simon43]

All the country links across the top don't work, but I understand that it's a work in progress.

 

However, since all ASEAN countries are shown at the top with equal status, they should also appear on the webpage content/posts with equal status.  I see no forum for my own abode - Laos.  

 

Is there no news about Laos?  Can I start some? ????

[Crossy]

9 minutes ago, misterjames said:

Well usernames along with our account data / posts could be linked to an individual via Chinese immigration for example.

 

I am not planning to visit Hong Kong or China, but I think the users that are should be aware and decide if they want to continue to participate or not.

 

I've asked the question, but I'm not holding my breath for a response from "above-stairs".

[misterjames]

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

 

I've asked the question, but I'm not holding my breath for a response from "above-stairs".

Thank you for asking, much appreciated.

[Crossy]

7 minutes ago, simon43 said:

All the country links across the top don't work, but I understand that it's a work in progress.

 

However, since all ASEAN countries are shown at the top with equal status, they should also appear on the webpage content/posts with equal status.  I see no forum for my own abode - Laos.  

 

Is there no news about Laos?  Can I start some? ????

 

Definitely a WIP.

 

For now Laos stuff can go in the South East Asia forum like before https://aseannow.com/forum/123-southeast-asia-forum/

 

[faraday]

Just had a '502 ' Error message!

[ThailandRyan]

Awe King for life Xi of China must be the new driver of the ship, and this is just the start of his steel curtain movements.  Kind of fancy logo though.  Since I had to re-log in I wonder how the security is for the server, I do see the lock at the top next to the URL.  I do wonder where the servers are kept and operated from.

[clivebaxter]

Font looks too small and light and amateurish logo, but at least the over bloated golf section got condensed  

[ChipButty]

For me the font is to faint it's a bit difficult to read especially long post

[ThailandRyan]

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

For me the font is to faint it's a bit difficult to read especially long post

Had to put my screen lighting up to see it and change to my new progressive lenses....it was hurting my eyes.

[tonray]

Can we talk about hawkers in SIngapore now ?

[Salerno]

I take it that wasn't a typo?

 

[bojo]

5 minutes ago, Salerno said:

I take it that wasn't a typo?

 

4 floors n all..............!

[J Town]

3 hours ago, timendres said:

The new styling is not bad - with one exception. The font is virtually unreadable. The black is not black enough with the light font weight. And the font size should be at least 1 point larger, maybe 2 points. I can't read this forum for more than 5 minutes now without eye strain. When I set the font-size to 18px, the font-weight to 500, and the color to #282828, it is a much more comfortable presentation.

Same here. VERY difficult to read.

[tonray]

1 hour ago, faraday said:

Just had a '502 ' Error message!

Soon the Chinese will change that to "888" considered luckier

[merijn]

Can’t open the new site correctly anymore? 
Get the strange basic layout which doesn’t make sense.

[vinny41]

I found it easier to read by changing theme bottom of screen next to Contact Us from theme AN-20210521 to Theme Copy of TV 20210323-4-5 

[Kerryd]

So TV is now owned by a company based in Hong Kong, where the CCP has just recently closed the last "democratic" newspaper (and thus has pretty much total control of all the media in HK).

A little bit of digging and it seems the boss of TV is now working for Tessanet Limited. Great website (http://www.tessanet.com/) - inspires confidence ! And according to one site, TV is that company's most active website.
Tessanet was established in 2012 and it's office(s) are in Kowloon. 

I guess we'll have to be really careful about criticizing anything China does in the future. I mean, it's not like the CCP would have people (or automated systems) monitoring posts or anything. Or censoring anything. Or using their contacts in the Thai (or other gov'ts) to try and identify anyone that criticizes them.

But one thing is for sure - I won't be going to any site that has teak doors anytime soon. I remember when that place opened and was (mostly) populated by miscreants who'd been (permanently) banned from TV for various reasons and their main purpose was to slag TV (and it's members). 
(Some of them would even create accounts using user names of people they didn't like on TV and then post **** pretending to be them. I've never been to the site but apparently someone created an account using my TV username and was posting <deleted>. I only found out when George told me about it during a phone call.)

But there doesn't seem to be any decent alternatives to TV (that I'm aware of). 

[canthai55]

1 hour ago, Salerno said:

Canada by the looks of it.

If so, expect this is on the way -

 

“The government believes that it should regulate all user-generated content, leaving it to the regulator to determine on what terms and conditions will be attached the videos of millions of Canadians on sites like Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, and hundreds of other services,” said Geist

 

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-internet-censorship-bill-must-be-stopped

 

[ChipButty]

12 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

I found it easier to read by changing theme bottom of screen next to Contact Us from theme AN-20210521 to Theme Copy of TV 20210323-4-5 

That worked now it's ok

[ChipButty]

49 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Had to put my screen lighting up to see it and change to my new progressive lenses....it was hurting my eyes.

I found it easier to read by changing theme bottom of screen next to Contact Us from theme AN-20210521 to Theme Copy of TV 20210323-4-5 

[ThailandRyan]

36 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

I found it easier to read by changing theme bottom of screen next to Contact Us from theme AN-20210521 to Theme Copy of TV 20210323-4-5 

Thanks, and yes that works, glad it was added...lol

[fishtank]

Font is unreadable.

Scroll down and chose the other theme.

Much better.

[worgeordie]

So this is why they nearly lost the ThaiVisa domain ,to create a new website

new name, will it be a bigger success ,I don't know ,but they should realise

there are a lot of older people that are members and we don't like change.

 

regards Worgeordie