Is it just me or is everything getting too quiet in this site?

As long as there’s at least one nice person left on this site to talk to, it will keep me coming back. Only a few of my threads have regular activity. Thankfully the book thread on here is more interactive than the one on Goodreads.

I’m reluctant to resurrect old threads or repeat/repost things as have “gotten beat up” for it. Some people don’t want old stuff brought back but there’s no pleasing everyone.

A couple of games threads died just this past spring or early summer. That’s because just 3 of us were posting, including myself, and both of those members haven’t logged in since. I miss them and the threads.

It’s hard to know what threads to remove from my subscriptions because I never know IF they could be brought back by someone. The thread on Matthew Perry had just a few responses, then when news broke that suspects in his death, it got revived. I have seen an apparently new thing with a message at the bottom of years long threads. It says you PROBABLY shouldn’t post in it as the OP is unlikely to see it.

Personally I don’t notice dates as they are so tiny. I notice content and titles of threads. Whether the OP will mind that a thread was revived is such an individual thing and a tough call.

I still think of members I haven’t seen on here in 5 years or longer. And I’ll never know what happened to them since I don’t know them in real life.

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And.......now that I can literally get on here anytime since I finally have a smartphone, I don't want to. Figures. And I used to make special trips to the library to get on this site (spending hours on it in one sitting, several days a week), but after 16 years of doing so, I can no longer access it there. That's for both the city and county library computers. They didn't know why and said they "would look into it". Told me that twice so far. Just lip service I bet. Why care about one site for one patron?

It might work on the laptop I get to check out and take home, but my turn in the queue isn't up yet. Last time I was on it in June, it worked.

I get an error message, but a different one, on all 3 of their browsers: Firefox, Edge, and Chrome. Yet it works on Safari on my phone. So it's not the site but something to do with their network. I thought I'd try it at the senior center which I forgot about. I haven't been here in 8 years I think. It works here! But I don't want to come here just for this. Good to know it works here though, if something happens. I don't know what, but $hit always happens to me.

SO it will be the phone mostly now. It drains the battery so fast because I don't have a strong signal.

If you happen to get a screenshot of the error message, I might be able to help.

An error that complains about the Domain Name might be circumvented by replacing MySupportForums.org with 67.222.147.118

For example, https://67.222.147.118/ would get you to this site. But your browser would report a certificate error. In fact it looks scary and daunting...

Thanks Square but I’m not sure if it’s worth the trouble for either you or me. I take lousy pictures so not sure if I can take a good picture. Even a tech savvy friend will just close the window and try later.

The error messages varied: This site can’t be reached, site didn’t send data, site unexpectedly closed, your connection isn’t secure, etc. Next time I go I’ll see if I can get a sample from each browser. Neither library system uses Safari unfortunately. But since it won’t work on any of the other browsers……

Those security certificate errors are scary for sure! I did try it both with and without the s in the url, like http instead of https.

Thanks for offering to help. Rare experience for me.

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One large content filtering provider has mis-classified our website. We reached out to them to correct this. That is likely why you may have trouble accessing our site from an organization that employs content filtering. Hopefully they'll fix this shortly...

Edited to add:

They've approved the change for our site, so at least for that content filtering software, we should be accessible once again. If the library would share what service or software they use with you, I can make sure we're clean with that service as well. (The service that just fixed its listing of us is called Palo Alto Networks.)

As a long-time member, I miss the busyness here, too. But I also come back because of the few people here I interact with and the hope I help someone some time. And I get help, too.

This site is the only one I "belong" to. I sure hope it never ends. Thanks, DocJohn, for your working with us and for starting this site. Many people have been helped here.

A . too, for everyone here.

I agree: it helps to help people. There's always the hope that something you say will help another user. I don't see that much at all in other corners of the world.

I was just about to make a thread about this, how funny. I’ve noticed that too. I noticed that this site became much less active after the name change.

Also, I have noticed that this site was much better when I first started posting on here.

I got a lot of support & replies at first, but then things changed for me after awhile.

I liked the fact that no one ever bullied or put anyone down on here at first. This was literally the only place on the internet to where there were zero trolls & rude people on it.

Then I stated to notice that some people on here started to become more judgmental & condescending.

So I had to leave the site for awhile as I started to feel attacked & judged. I was accused of being delusional & other things one tine.

I don’t expect everyone to agree with me all the tine, but calling someone delusional or how you wouldn’t want to be friends with me is rude.

This is supposed to be a support site, not a site to where you go to judge other people & put them down.

Then I came back but I was still experiencing some unpleasantness from some people on here.

Maybe other people have experienced the same problems on here too & left. The old saying about it’s not what you say but how you say it is true.

Also, hardly anyone replies to threads or messages anymore, so I kind of almost gave up on this site.

I have also experienced the inconsistentcy that Nonightowl mentioned with messages too.

I try to be consistent, but having bad depression makes everything difficult. I can barely function most of the time as my depression is pretty bad.

I have to force myself to get out of bed, take a shower & go to work. I also have fibromyalgia & I’m
Often exhausted & in pain.

I’m glad that I found a few nice people on here. I appreciate the support & the advice that I’ve been given over the years.