ASEANNOW.com - Thaivisa.com rebrands and expands beyond Thailand

[Neeranam]

2 minutes ago, bannork said:

Please bring back the foreign news section. It was fun posting all the bad news from the UK following its financial suicide, otherwise known as Brexit.

I miss that, and all the anti-Trump supremacists moaning every day. 

[Poet]

5 minutes ago, bannork said:

Please bring back the foreign news section. It was fun posting all the bad news from the UK following its financial suicide, otherwise known as Brexit.

"And today's prize, for making a thread that has nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit, five years after the Brexit vote, somehow connect to Brexit, goes to repeat winner bannork".

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by Poet

[Mac Mickmanus]

5 minutes ago, Poet said:

There have been occassionally active sections for at least Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. They shouldn't be starting from zero.

 

   They aren't . 

Look in the "General chat" sections for previous posts 

[Salerno]

8 minutes ago, Poet said:

Thailand expat Facebook groups tend to be far better than the forums. You can almost always find a group whose tone suits you and, in general, the moderators tend to be less ego-driven, leading to far more interesting discussions.

 

That may well be the case, have to admit haven't looked into them much at all. It's the platform I have issues with; not so easy to find "threads", search is on par if not worse than here, constantly injecting <deleted> into the timeline I've no interest in and of course the data harvesting. 

 

That said, I'll have a look around again when I get a chance.

[The Cipher]

Quote

from a forum some of us have invested thousands of hours of our precious private time to.

 

If this isn't a flashing red warning sign for me to quit while I'm ahead, then I dk.

[xylophone]

3 hours ago, Kadilo said:

If you click the “theme” drop down below at bottom of page next to the “contact us” you can change it back by selecting the other option. 
 

You even get some purple back!

Now that seems to have disappeared so the font size/style is back to "very hard to see" mode??????

[NCC1701A]

3 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

What is the point these days of having a media company registered in CCP controlled HK? 

to send out pro communist propaganda.

to collect users information like IP addresses for the Ministry of State Security. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(China)

 

 

 

 

[Neeranam]

OMG, I can still see posters that I blocked ages ago! 

[sixlegs]

As the general interest in Thailand drops, so does the revenue from advertisements on a platform that delives information about it, naturally.

 

Good move imho.

[John Drake]

9 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

WHATEVER THE FACK YOU DO DO NOT CHANGE THAT 

UBONJOE IF YOU LEAVE LET US KNOW!!!!

 

Looks like the language filter isn't working either.

[John Drake]

11 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Have fun everyone it has been a slice.  One of the things I remember the most about here was the GRAND OPENING of the THAI VISA BAR.

 

I remember their advertising member parties for the bar. I often wondered is there were any fistfights that happened.

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, misterjames said:

plenty of jabs not sure about jobs though

We wish....

[John Drake]

I knew this forum was doomed when geriatrickid disappeared.

[Stargeezr]

Every thing changes, heck look at the climate.   Anyway expansions happen, and that is fine with me.  

  Glad to hear of the reason for the name change.  Thanks

Geezer

[Jingthing]

19 minutes ago, sixlegs said:

As the general interest in Thailand drops, so does the revenue from advertisements on a platform that delives information about it, naturally.

 

Good move imho.

That's a good point.

To wit:

 

 

[J Town]

55 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

Personally I use a browser plugin called Stylus to alleviate site issues, if you have the knowledge or willing to learn it's worth having a play. Just about got it back to the way I like it:

 

 

I went to install and got the following message during installation. I read this as they can read ALL my financials and ALL my passwords:

 

[mrmicbkktxl]

4 hours ago, phetphet said:

they should have maybe started a thread explaining what was going to happen and asked for suggestions for a new name. There might have been some funny ones but also something better than the new one.

 

As for all the complaints about who owns it, where it is based and members fears for their personal information. Well it just means there is now space for a new Thailand  centric competitor website if someone is willing to set one up.

How much would be the costs to do so?How much would be the monthly costs if you start without advertisers?

[Kinnock]

Thin, pale grey font has been designed to make it invisible to anyone over 50 - excluding 99% of the regular posters 

[Salerno]

21 minutes ago, J Town said:

I went to install and got the following message during installation. I read this as they can read ALL my financials and ALL my passwords:

 

Yes, everything in life has risks attached so it comes down to how risk averse you are and what processes you implement to mitigate said risks.

 

That is what would be classed as a "High alert" risk level:

When the permission requires access to all data on your computer and the websites you visit, it means that the app or extension can access almost anything. This could be your webcam or personal files, inside or outside of your browser.

 

Those level extensions I install in my day to day time wasting browser. For banking, shopping etc. I use a separate browser. Doesn't 100% protect against such risks but cest la vie.

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by Salerno

[Satcommlee]

Does this mean more click bait in the daily emails, already sick of clicking links to find out it is a Cambodia story..

[DefaultName]

1 hour ago, Salerno said:

 

Personally I use a browser plugin called Stylus to alleviate site issues, if you have the knowledge or willing to learn it's worth having a play. Just about got it back to the way I like it:

 

 

Thanks, that fixed it for me.

[Kadilo]

37 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Now that seems to have disappeared so the font size/style is back to "very hard to see" mode??????

Yep. 
Looks like they want to get rid of anything purple and easy to read. 

[scubascuba3]

3 hours ago, asiacurious said:

 

I've always relied on Google for searching this site.  Much better results that the internal search engine. 

 

At least until Google re-crawls the site, you will still want to use "thaivisa.com" as the site name if you're using google.

 

For example, searching this on Google:

      90 day report site:thaivisa.com

 

Gets you about 11,600 results.....

 

But searching this:

      90 day report site:aseannow.com

 

Only gets you 4 results.....

Yeah i always search using Google but still not great, couldn't find a thread I posted only yesterday. I gave up on the site search years ago

[Redline]

5 hours ago, misterjames said:

The bottom of the page states Tessanet Limited (Hong Kong).

So I guess the CCP is monitoring this site

[Orinoco]

3 minutes ago, Redline said:

So I guess the CCP is monitoring this site

Is that a new thing ? LOL

[Redline]

12 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

Is that a new thing ? LOL

I suppose it is not, but I wasn't aware the site was connected to companies in Hong Kong 

Edited July 2, 2021 by Redline

[Oxx]

Why did the person who chose the new domain name want "a Sean now"? Is he/she desperate for an Irish man?

[OJAS]

1 hour ago, bannork said:

Please bring back the foreign news section. It was fun posting all the bad news from the UK following its financial suicide, otherwise known as Brexit.

 

It is rumoured that the owners of ASEAN NOW will shortly be creating a new forum called EUSSR NOW

[Keesters]

So far so good but I'm a little worried about changes to advertising and spam. An increase in either will certainly <deleted> me off and make me leave. 

[Chris.B]

The type is too hard to read, please make it darker.