What has happened to Pelican Forums?
 

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I see these weird A with a hat now on many things instead of what was there.

And none of the Y-Tube videos play. When I click on them the video does not play, and the box just turns black. Yet if I go to Y-Tube I can watch videos just fine.

Is it a Pelican thing, or did my computer security setting do something different. I get the same thing with Firefox of Edge, so not just the browser.

It's just you. I don't have the random symbol, and YT videos play just fine.

Try a full refresh of the page (shift-ctrl-r), closing your browser and opening it back up, or rebooting your PC.

Something is weird about the forum these days. When I post, I don't get an auto refresh, but when I open the forum on another window, my post has been published.

Otherwise it works fine. YT vids work.

I have the same experience as Mike. I think that is the reason for so many double posts.
Hit "post" and the screen just sits there. Hit it again and get a message, "This is the same as ..."
But open a new browser screen and both posts are there.

Glen, I don't get the funny oil well looking icon, just smiley emoji, etc. Must be you.

I notice it seems to run pretty well on my iPad but on the MacBook Pro it often hangs for a long time, especially when posting to a thread. Some software gremlin afoot I recon.

No problem with any other forums or functions on my laptop so it is most likely a forum issue.

All I use is the mobile version. A few things I’ve noticed recently… it takes a long time to post your reply after clicking reply; YouTube videos would not play until recently. It either turned black or said I needed to login to view it. Same thing for the YouTube shorts; sometimes the website seems crazy slow.

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For me, only the sometimes slow posting. Everything else is normal. Tablet and phone.

apple has been updating lately and randomly ****ing over my adobe products. or adobe could be ****ing over my macs. either way pelican has been mostly fine.

Well, it does the same thing with Edge, so no just Firefox. It must be some security setup on my antivirus.

I did just update my motherboard BIOS. I wonder if that is it?

(to my understanding) This should be done with a flash drive/restart, not some app.

I was looking to update drivers for the Gigabyte MB yesterday through 'App Center'.
I selected the 'Essential Windows drivers' box.
It tried to install Norton AV, Google Taskbar, Google Chrome, Google Drive instead. WTH?
Stopped it immediately. Uninstalled. Cleaned.
Looked at various forums. Apparently this bs has been going on since 2013.

Have to physically refresh to confirm a post has... posted. Odd, but not a crisis.

I have the same issue when posting lately.

Been stuck on mobile mode for the last year when using my phone, can't get out of it.

The weird part is only Pelican has the funny looking A with a ^ over it. Every other web site is working fine.

When I update the BIOS on my motherboard I go to the ASUS web site for my motherboard, and download the latest BIOS. I download a little file, then put the file on a thumb drive, and have the BIOS utility feature use the new file to reboot and go into the BIOS It reboots several times, and up comes Windows.

My router updates it's BIOS automatically at 2:00 AM when one it due.

^This. Every post. 2different computers and the phone too...

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No such issue here…

I recently did a few searches and no results came up from the last two years, which I know is an error.

Forum posting has been terrible for several weeks (at least) for me. Frequently type up a post then just give up on waiting and go somewhere else.

I’ve noticed lately on my phone, I have to login every time I visit PPOT.

There’s something weird going on!

Same here
I just refresh the page, then the post will load.
Also the site will be slow to load a page. I usually exit the site and re-join.

Welp, I figured out my issue with the weird display and not being able to watch embedded videos.

It was my VPN running automatically, and not when I needed it to watch foreign news broadcasts.

Nord now turns on automatically, and turns on three "Threat protocols". At least I can turn off those threat protocols, but Nord activates and sends my IP to some other state,

https://ipleak.net/

I used IPleak to figure that out. Now I need to find a way to keep Nord from taking over and log out of it unless I want it. It used to work that way. If I can't log out, I will install it.

I already have all the threat protections on my system I need.