2 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

So its not the domain registration company may be ? Nothing at all to do with the actual company possibly, its all just theories and speculation.

No the domain registration is namebright.com the owner is Tessanet limited (Hong Kong)

 

No conspiracy theories here just the facts.

PLEASE fix the font. Difficult to read. Too light.

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3 minutes ago, mstevens said:

 

Really?!?!?! The impression I got in recent months is that the number of posters had dropped off and there was a distinct lack of fresh blood coming through. I could be wrong of course, but that is the impression I had.....that the forum was in a slow decline - which would be entirely consistent with Covid and fewer expats moving to / Westerners visiting Thailand.

My sentiments exactly!

Desperate times always call for desperate measures.

 

Seems the owner of the site is panicking and has made a bad move.

Hopefully he comes to his senses and rebrands it Thaivisa.

4 minutes ago, WineOh said:

My sentiments exactly!

Desperate times always call for desperate measures.

 

Seems the owner of the site is panicking and has made a bad move.

Hopefully he comes to his senses and rebrands it Thaivisa.

You are assuming the owner didn't sell out completely...I'm sure a 'handsum' price was to be had

Just now, tonray said:

You are assuming the owner didn't sell out completely...I'm sure a 'handsum' price was to be had

I would agree with that very valuable when you consider the amount of negativity on here regarding sinovac etc 

 

A lot more positive sinovac posts incoming me thinks.

3 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

Uninspiring name and I'm sure the non-Thai forums will remain largely empty. Expats in the Philippines and elsewhere have their own places to hang out.

Thinking back, I always thought Thaivisa was a strange name for a website I searched when I wanted to find about western food, but agreed, uninspiring.

 

The one thing that might improve, I used DuckDuckGo to search for something on TVF, and got 2 pages of Thai visa agencies. Maybe it will improve the search, or maybe AN will improve the on-site search.

3 minutes ago, WineOh said:

My sentiments exactly!

Desperate times always call for desperate measures.

Seems the owner of the site is panicking and has made a bad move.

Hopefully he comes to his senses and rebrands it Thaivisa.

When the global news section was dropped, many members stopped posting.

2 minutes ago, J Town said:

When the global news section was dropped, many members stopped posting.

There was a global news section ? I just come here for quips from the erudite and gentlemanly membership

4 minutes ago, RussellGee said:

The one thing that might improve, I used DuckDuckGo to search for something on TVF, and got 2 pages of Thai visa agencies. Maybe it will improve the search, or maybe AN will improve the on-site search.

It is also rebrtanded now to "Peking-Duck-Go"

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.

11 minutes ago, J Town said:

PLEASE fix the font. Difficult to read. Too light.

 

they're saving money on the ink ..........

Like it or not but Thaivisa has become an internationally famous name.

 

Even my aging mother is aware of it.

 

You don't fix what ain't broke!

Everyone who visits Thailand for a prolonged period of time eventually hears about this site. Over the year's it has helped tens of thousands get correct visa and travel advice.

 

Now all of a sudden, in the middle of the night, you hit the panic button and become ASEAN Now?

 

Imagine Facebook suddenly changing their name to FaceBase or something like that, without any prior warning. They would lose millions of members in a single day and rightly so! 

 

I think its a very poor decision by whomever now owns this place and very disrespectful to its current members.

2 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

they're saving money on the ink ..........

Preparing for the changeover, those Han characters use a lot of ink you know.

I never got my morning newsletter today, do we have to sign up for that again?

Christ you would think people had lost a relative. 
Its just a <deleted> name. 

6 minutes ago, WineOh said:

Like it or not but Thaivisa has become an internationally famous name.

 

Even my aging mother is aware of it.

 

You don't fix what ain't broke!

Everyone who visits Thailand for a prolonged period of time eventually hears about this site. Over the year's it has helped tens of thousands get correct visa and travel advice.

 

Now all of a sudden you hit the panic button and become ASEAN Now?

 

Imagine Facebook suddenly changing their name to FaceBase or something like that, without any prior warning. The would lose millions of members in a single day and rightly so! 

 

I think its a very poor decision by whomever now owns this place and very disrespectful to its current members.

What should they do .. send you a letter .. get the Wine Oh stamp of approval.. it's not a big deal surely  .. 

Maybe organise a minutes silence later to help people grieve and move on. 

Are the "Thaivisa virus expert" accreditations still valid on this site ?

What about Thai bashing, is that now broader Asian bashing ?

Do we need to re-define who "They" are ? They always referred to Thais who dont want us here, hate us, scam us etc etc.

Does "They" now refer to a broader Asian population ?

 

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

Thailand is moving toward being controlled by China, now the forum is being controlled by China.

What is the world coming to?

Would post laughing emoji, but site will not allow ha, ha ,ha.????????????????

 

Alex Scalia is the Chairman of Thaivisa.com.

 

Tessanet limited is a company Alex owns.

 

AFAIK the servers are located in the USA.

19 minutes ago, WineOh said:

 

I think its a very poor decision by whomever now owns this place and very disrespectful to its current members.

 

In what way do you feel disrespected ?

A shame they could not make the font actually readable.

3 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

Uninspiring name and I'm sure the non-Thai forums will remain largely empty. Expats in the Philippines and elsewhere have their own places to hang out.

Yes but now the butchers of Tiananmen and torturers of Uighers can scrape our data like Hong Kong, What's not to like comrades.

7 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Christ you would think people had lost a relative. 
Its just a <deleted> name. 

 

You wouldn't feel like that if it was YOUR relative.    OOPs,   sorry,  didn't look.   Thought it was just

another covid thread.................   

1 minute ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Alex Scalia is the Chairman of Thaivisa.com.

 

Tessanet limited is a company Alex owns.

 

AFAIK the servers are located in the USA.

Source? Tessanet is registered in Hong Kong so they are by law required by law to provide anything the communist party requests from them regardless of where the servers are. It's also not owned by one man it's owned by shareholders from what I found on the companies house website. 

 

Please feel free to prove me wrong with a credible source?

Just now, misterjames said:

Source? Tessanet is registered in Hong Kong so they are by law required by law to provide anything the communist party requests from them regardless of where the servers are. It's also not owned by one man it's owned by shareholders from what I found on the companies house website. 

 

Please feel free to prove me wrong with a credible source?

 

not going to provide jack <deleted> as I could not be bothered.

 

If you say it is cshareholder owned then so be it, you are right and Iam wrong.

 

1 minute ago, Ralf001 said:

 

not going to provide jack <deleted> as I could not be bothered.

 

Didn't think you would..

7 minutes ago, fishtank said:

A shame they could not make the font actually readable.

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!

555

Just now, Kadilo said:

If you click the “theme” button down below at bottom of page next to the “contact us” you can change it back. 
 

You even get some purple back!

you sir have just won the poty 2025 !

 

two Peking ducks on the way..............