Posts made by Oppidum

I’ve just visited your “Hot Deals” area for the first time, and I’ve looked over 5 pages of the deals.

With the way the threads are sorted, with the ones having recent replies being at the top of the heap, instead of the most recent threads that were posted being at the top, in the future I don’t think that I’ll have the patience to continue to sift through the pages of Hot Deals – as it continues to grow and grow – to try to figure out what threads I’ve already seen the title of, and what threads are new to me.

(I saw the earlier suggestion in this “support” thread of looking at the “unread” button that is up at the top of the template, but when I skim the thread titles of Hot Deals, I do not open each and every thread, I only open the ones that I am interested in, so, for me, having a list of “unread” threads is nearly the same as just looking at the jumble of threads in the Hot Deals forum itself, and that is not a workaround to not being able to sort threads by their posting date.)

I do appreciate that you are looking into the issue, and there is a plugin that is not working well with your set-up.

thanks!

@Global-Moderators
Might want to put in the thread title here that this is for one year, to save people like me from thinking that the mod should be alerted that there looks like there was a re-post of the same offer (at https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/1090/free-2-year-shoprunner-membership-for-paypal-members/5)

@therugsucker, there was also this thread about Edge browser not working:

(It is possible that it’s now working in Edge, there was no follow-up to say.)

https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/787/site-does-not-work-properly-in-the-edge-browser

Yes it’s definitely gaslighting; those functions have stopped working for me already, after being “on” for just 5 minutes.

@therugsucker, I also can’t post a new thread, or edit my within-thread posts.

I am not using Amazon Fire tablet but a laptop with Win 7 and IE11.

I created a thread about my problem (a mod had to start the thread for me, in my name). In my thread, some people have given me tips to try to make it work, so you might want to give those a skim:
https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/967/functions-blocked-or-unavailable-tech-support/32

I was not clear a moment ago – I meant to indicate that the vote tally IS suddenly showing me the pop-up window of who voted, and clicking on a link to another part of this site does now take me to the new page right away instead of requiring me to refresh the browser window.

(Sorry, normally I edit my internet forum comments carefully, but I can’t edit my posts here, so that’s why I’m leaving some mistakes and typos.)

Ha ha, it’s like I’m being gaslighted -

Those 2 functions have suddenly started to work for me, after being active on the site for about 30 minutes:

“clicking on the vote tally doesn’t bring up any window of who voted in which direction,
and
clicking on a thread name to go to that thread (or any other site link) first brings up a swirling circle and then I have to refresh the browser page to get the page to show up.”

Does anyone know if,
AFTER receiving this postcard about the Anthem settlement,
you can then go and sign up for a credit monitoring service that you plan to keep for at least one year
(I have a plethora of those offers to choose from, most recently the Equifax offer),
and THEN put in a claim for the $36 in cash?

@Global-Moderators…

Okay, I’ve just figured out I can “at” the mods by doing the @ sign, in order to alert them.

I hope that is okay that I will “at” you when I want to call your attention to something, since I can’t use many of your site’s buttons and functions on my computer.

To the Mods (whom I can’t alert directly due to a glitch),

This post might be about the same class action as an older thread: https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/119/pharmavite-naturemade-tripleflex-glucosamine-class-action-settlement

If they are about the same class action, each post contains unique information and they should be added together in one thread for the topic.

Does anyone have any idea what the script that my configuration is blocking would be?

Is the only way to find it, to go into the F12 area?

I fear that I wouldn’t know what I was looking for there.

It’s strange that it’s ONLY this site where I experience this (I have had my computer, and it has been set up this way, for about 4 years).

At the moment, the two “fixed” things I commented on last night are back to being broken –
clicking on the vote tally doesn’t bring up any window of who voted in which direction,
and clicking on a thread name to go to that thread (or any other site link) first brings up a swirling circle and then I have to refresh the browser page to get the page to show up.

It is probably a clue as to what is going on that those things have toggled on and off, staying off on my previous visits, then staying on for hours at my last visit, then being off at my present visit, without me changing my computer/browser settings, so seems to be something from the site that is loosening up a bit and then tightening up a bit.

Thanks for everyone’s help above.

I’ll still swing over here from time to time, so if anyone has another idea for me to try and wants to relay it here, I’ll see it.

I like this new logo better than the previous one.

I would change the brown color, though. To me it’s a bit too yellowish-brown, and reminds me of diaper-poo.
[To be frank, but you want us to be frank… I think? ]

I guess you are trying to represent a brown men’s leather wallet, so I can see why brown was chosen.

If you need to have an image of a men’s wallet in the site-name logo…
(I would actually vote not to have the wallet in the logo, myself),
I’d make it a much darker brown.

Or you could make it black, but then it might look even less like a wallet than it does now.
(I don’t think you even need the picture of a wallet there, however.)

And I would definitely make the colors of “Phat” and “Wallet” the same.

Green as the logo color is fine, green stands for money (for US paper money, anyway).

The word Wallet is current a nice green color, but I’m not sure that this color is quite the green of US bills, so if you wanted to approximate the color of US bills, you might alter the green.

I expect that you were trying not to use the Fatwallet limey-green, to differentiate your logo.

The font to me is a bit old-fashioned, sort of like from the magazines TigerBeat and TeenBeat in 1979 – the headline of “Interview with David Cassidy!” would be in that font.
Maybe it’s so old-fashioned that it’s modern, the way you youngin’s in Hoxton and Brooklyn like massive beards and Victorian bicycles and that type of thing.

I’d pick quite a streamlined, futuristic font, that gave off the vibes of “Now. Modern. Intelligent. Efficient. Lifestyles of the Rich, Modest, and Smart.”

I am not sure if you have a separate thread about the forum name, but I am not hot on the name “Phat”.
It seems quite dated – when I see it, all I think of is that former model who was once married to a music mogul who had that tv show, the “Baby Phat” designer woman.

I also am not sure that this play on the spelling of “fat” would help anyone who was searching for Fatwallet in a search engine… I would not in a million years think, “I see that Fatwallet.com is dead, so why don’t I type in ‘Phatwallet’ and see what comes up.”

I just tried logging into the site and moving around in a standard IE window, not InPrivate Browsing, and nothing is different. I still can’t edit my posts or start a new topic.

If it helps you to know what happens, when I click the 3 vertical dots to try to edit a post that I wrote earlier, a red circle with a plus sign appears in the lower right corner of the screen, but nothing else shows up (like an editing window).
The same thing pops up when I try to reply to someone’s specific post using the “reply” link that is next to “quote”, the up and down arrows, and the 3 dots. I can only contribute to a thread at the moment by doing the general “post quick reply” window/button at the bottom of a thread.

At the moment, because I both tried to edit a post that I had written earlier and then to reply to a post by clicking the “reply” link that is next to “quote”, I have two red circles with white plus signs in them at the bottom right of my screen. They don’t do anything when I click them.

–
In good news –

For a good portion of this evening while I’ve been logged in, I have noticed that I have been able to go to a subforum’s list of threads and click on a link to a thread and be taken right to the thread’s page – I am no longer seeing the swirling circle in limbo and having to click “refresh” once on the browser window to get the page to load!

And, when I click the number between the up and down arrows, I can now see the pop-up window that says who has voted up or down for that post.

@moonknight, I too am used to reading from left to right, but I don’t like to turn my head like I’m in the audience at Wimbledon, or move my eyeballs sideways until they creak, just to finish each line of text

I was just over at the other other site (not SD but the newer other one) and their comments are displayed with a good width and height.
Just giving an example.

[And, unlike my computer’s technical situation here at the moment (as described in a different Support thread), I could also start a new topic there, edit my posts, change my skin (although they only have 1 or 2 to choose from!) – which of course makes it easier to interact.]

Here is the ‘vaunted’ chart I mentioned earlier, which I actually found not to be very accurate about a couple of VPNs that I had signed up with and/or researched.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

I think that it was PIA, as marcopolomle mentioned, rather than Hide My As_, which a lot of people at FW had said they were using.

Just to explain why Mikk1 started off the thread asking this question of me specifically – this was a brief side conversation within a different thread (on the Support forum) and the moderator forked it over here to the Technology forum to make it its own topic.

@dangeRuss,

Is the problem I described with Win 7 + IE11 – which you could replicate a few days ago – now gone from your test machine? That is implied in your comment to me, but I just want to make sure I understand the situation.

I don’t expect that I have a cache to clear, as I use InPrivate Browsing and frequently click on IE’s Delete Browsing History and frequently run the external program CCleaner (not to clean the registry, just to do the safer cleaning).

I don’t know how to use the developer tools, or what a blocked script would look like, so I can’t go down that road.
(I’m sure I could figure it out if I wanted to spend time studying it and tinkering, but I don’t enjoy learning about computer-tech topics for their own sake, and the console appears to be kind of complicated for the uninitiated.)

All I can say is that I have never run into so many problems with a discussion forum site, before now. If a site is not working normally for me, usually one of my workarounds will work [unblocking one or two IP addresses temporarily on Peerblock, allowing DOM storage, turning on TLS 1.0 (rarely needed).] I participate on a number of forum sites.

Sometimes not all the functions will work for me on a discussion forum site when I have Peerblock turned on – with Peerblock on, I couldn’t do about 10% of the peripheral stuff on Fatwallet (such as seeing people’s icon photos and badges, being able to vote in certain posts, being able to mark a thread with the little graphic of a red circle with a line through it), but the difference is that ALL of Fatwallet worked just fine for me when I would turn Peerblock off, so this is not the same type of thing, because I can’t use necessary parts of your site like saving my profile settings and starting a new thread even when Peerblock is off and DOM storage is on.

Twice in the past few years (both European government websites), for a website to work properly, I have needed to open a normal IE window and not use Private Browsing, so I will try that in a second with your site. If it does work, I’ll post a new comment below. If I don’t return here tonight, then that didn’t work either.

If I am (after your site updates of a few days ago) now the only person to report experiencing these problems on your site when using Win 7 + IE11, that is curious!

My monitor is about 19 inches horizontially and earlier in the thread when I said that the comment text extended too widely across the screen, the comment text as it was presented on my moniotr was 11 inches wide then, but now I see tonight that it’s 16.5 inches wide (which is worse).

It is not pleasant to have to swivel the eyes back and forth on a stark white background, when this should be an easygoing, friendly, relaxing, interesting website to visit.

I understand that one poster above likes the vast expanse of text, and says that those who don’t like it can just make their browser windows smaller, but when I make my browser window smaller: one, it leaves off some of the graphics and links and functions (for example, most of those little icons across the top of phatwallet’s template are not shown to me when my browser window is reduced). two, why should I have to operate the internet uncomfortably like I’m reading it on a phone screen when I bought a 21 inch monitor for the very purpose of being able to see my computer display well and comfortably.

It is not as if having an extremely-wide comment text section is a standard default in internet discussion forums, at least in my (mainstream internet user) experience. There are reasons that comment boxes are often boxed in and don’t extend across every centimeter of screen width, and that shades of gentle colors are often used to demarcate areas on the page to make reading a pleasant, intuitive experience.

The feeling that reading and typing comments on this site currently evokes in me is that of peering out of a car window and blinkingly scanning the horizon, trying to find a lost grey neck scarf in a snow blizzard (=visually chasing a thin, long line of grey, bland text on a thoroughly-white, off-putting screen background).

(“But how do you really feel, Oppidum?” ho ho ho)

@fivetalents, a “pha-blet” sounds most appropriate for pha-twallet!

Thank you for your concern and encouragement, I appreciate it.

I am minimalistic in some areas of life - tech equipment is one - I’m a late adopter and a conservative purchaser regarding most tech stuff, so I don’t have a tablet, and I don’t have a laptop that can be spared.
I do have an old phone that I wiped and use for random stuff, but the battery is shot, and the screen is not big enough for comfortable reading/typing for more than a few minutes. Even though it has no phone number, I think it requires me to have a google email address for the phone, and sucks stuff into ‘the cloud’ although I’ve disabled everything I can. …I’m not brave enough or interested enough to “root” a phone, which seems pretty complicated!
If it’s demoted to being a secondary computer, I’ll need to keep my Win 7 laptop the way it is set up, because of old programs that don’t transfer over to Win 10, wanting to keep some files apart, etc., so I can’t make it a blank slate.

Alas, I may soon have to start using a new computer with Win 10, and it’ll have Edge
(although I think your site is having problems with Edge too, according to a Support thread)
(though I guess it doesn’t have a good reputation and isn’t a commonly-used browser despite the heavy/forced promotion of it),
and I expect that I will have to start using Chrome, whether I like it or not.

Plus, your site might be able to fix the issues with MS browsers.

I’m just glad that your folks were able to replicate what I have been experiencing, so it’s not a user-error situation at least

@dangeRuss, to save you time, a summary of my comment in post 20 would be
"Thank you for spending time on fixing this. …Unfortunately, it appears that for me tonight, the site’s problems are not resolved and are the same as before."

Can’t edit my prior post (clicking on 3 vertical dots doesn’t do anything for me), so I’m just going to do an @dangeRuss here to let him/her (a him I would guess?) know that my post tonight of
https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/967/functions-blocked-or-unavailable-tech-support/20
was in reply to his post from yesterday.

@mikk1, unfortunately I don’t have a VPN that I recommend…

I had a terrible experience with one highly-rated, security-conscious, subscription one, which I described in detail a number of years ago on the FW Technology subforum. I can’t recall the name.

I also have used Witopia on and off. Based in Virginia just a few miles from some highly official sites, it is perhaps not private-private as far as really being Private, but it does a good job of being reliable, easy to connect to, with lots of international nodes, rarely disconnecting, good chat support, not too expensive, provides the latest connection options, doesn’t bug subscibers with unnecessary emails, etc. I don’t do downloading, sharing, iffy stuff, sensitive reporting, etc., so I am okay with the possible tradeoffs in using them versus being extra-safe with something that is more geared to real cloaking but is more complex to manage.

However, I might try another service, since a node that I had used a fair bit isn’t working now. It’s been on my to-do list to look into.

For some reason, it’s hard to get an impartial, Consumer-Reports sort of grasp of the VPN market, because so many rating sites are biased and work for commission, and even the more impartial articles (such as on Lifehacker and various major technology magazines/blogs) only mention a handful of providers when they compare and contrast VPNs, and usually those articles are years old anyway.

I did a lot of research (at the time, which was several years ago now) before I selected and joined the one that ended up letting some kind of menace in and screwing my computer up (which I mentioned at the beginning of this post), so I don’t trust online ratings in this area much.

Also, there is a vaunted VPN comparison chart on the internet that is recommended a lot, I think even by sites like Brian Krebs’, but I found a number of mistakes and omissions in that chart about VPNs that I had already researched and been signed up for, so I gave the chart up, after initially being so glad that someone had put together an overview of all the providers.

We had some threads on FW Technology about VPNs that people liked. There are a few main ones that most people seemed to go for. Maybe “hide my a__” was one of them.

Which have you used, and liked or disliked?

the reply, quote, up and down arrow, 3 dots, they are all miles away from the right edge of the comments. for me, it would be more comfortable if they were more to the left, more below the comment.

there is too much white and it kind of gives me a headache to see so much of it and try to concentrate on the text.
the text is kind of grey as well, not as dark and sharp as it could be.
It is visually unpleasant for me to read the site for more than 10 minutes. just my opinion.

maybe this is because i’m stuck with the default skin.
but I still think the page is way too wide.

I even think the comment text is a bit too wide, I’d decrease it. For example, in the image I posted, in your fivetalents post, I would make the right margin after the comma of “appearance of the threads,” putting “however, dangeru… did” on the next line down.

@fivetalents, I just saw your post above P-Cat’s, with the helpful visual image.
No, that does not pop up for me. I assume that it’s in the same vein as the option box of the 3 vertical dots not showing up for me, the “reply” to a specific post not working for me, etc.

@PywackettyCat, I hope you saw my reply to your comment. I am unable to click on “reply” within a post – the site has only let me do that a few times tonight, otherwise it won’t let me and I have to do “post quick reply” below the post I am responding to.
I have no idea why the site has flashes of time when it works a little more normally for me, and then long stretches of time when a lot of the functions don’t work (by the way, this is all with Peerblock off and DOM storage allowed).

“If you click directly on the number between the up and down arrows, you will see all vote.”

When I click on (or just hover over) the number between the arrows, I only see the names of the people who up-voted it, not the people who down-voted it.

(Maybe it’s due to my browser’s larger problems with this site)

For example, just for the sake of experimentation, I have just downvoted your post above this one, and I do not see any names when I hover over the “-1” number.
But when I upvoted it earlier, I saw the name “Oppidum” when I hovered over the “1” number.

I am going to leave it downvoted as a “-1” so you can check and see if you are seeing the same thing.

@fivetalents This is what I see

I am reading through some of the Support threads just to get up to date on what people have pointed out, and I have just now tried using the up/down arrows for the first time, on posts in this thread, just to see how they work –

and I’m wondering why only the names of people who up-voted a post are showing up when the area is hovered over. For example, in the post right above this one, right now it has 1 upvote from mikk1. If I vote it up, it says 2 votes, and hovering over it says mikk1 and Oppidum. However, if i vote it down, it says 0 votes, and hovering over it says mikk1 but does not mention my name. Is there a way to see the names of the down-voters on a post? Or is that deliberately shielded from readers for a reason? (Or is it just my browser that is not letting me see everything on the page – which is happening to other features of the template).

OP, I don’t know if any of the discussion on my Support thread about how I’m having problems with this site in IE 11 would help you with your issue:
https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/967/functions-blocked-or-unavailable-tech-support

Has it been changed?
I find it way too wide on my laptop.
Also, too much white space (I can’t change my settings right now so I can’t choose other skins).

I think that this suggestion is also being talked about in another thread in the Support forum.

Tangential issue – I find the comment box a few lines too small. I see just 4 lines in the write-a-reply box. Would you be able to add a couple of lines to it? Would make it easier to proofread and organize one’s entire comment, without lots of scrolling.

I would also like a sort-by option that sorts by posting date. I don’t care when or if any replies are made, I keep track of threads by the date they are initially posted.

Addressing the help tips above:

(I am just stopping by for a few minutes, so I’ll just put the different comments in quotes without attributing them to individuals)

tip: "Whitelisting will help"
response:

1. Whitelisting isn’t quite how Peerblock works, you can’t whitelist by name, you can only whitelist by specific IP address or range of addresses. Many different IP addresses are flying by on my Peerblock screen when I’m on this site, and it would be tedious for me to look in the Peerblock block history and click “allow” for each one, so I’d have to turn the entire program off, which I’m not willing to do for a site that is a “nice-to-have” but not a “need-to-have”.
2. Above and beyond that, though, the overarching problem is that this site is giving me the same problems whether or not my Peerblock is turned on, so it’s not Peerblock that is causing this, and it’s not any sort of ad/tracker blocking that is causing my issues on this site, because I don’t have any of those programs except for Peerblock. So whitelisting would not help.

tip: "This forum runs on javascript, so make sure that is allowed."
response: My javascript is always enabled.
To make sure I have it set right, I have just followed the following tiny “tutorial”, and my javascript was indeed already enabled: https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17508

tip: "There are 4 possible cookies that may be causing your issues"
response: For cookie handling, I have my settings on medium-high. (To see what that entails, go to the following page and scroll down just a few inches to see an image describing the IE 11 medium-high cookie settings: https://www.ebates.com/help/article/supported-browsers-115009257328).
Do your cookies require more lax settings than those?

tip: "try launching an InPrivate browser session in IE11. …If that displays okay, then it’s one of the add-ons/filters loading in a standard session."
response: I always use InPrivate browsing, it is my default. Plus, I do not have any add-ons/filters that load in my IE 11, besides my computer’s antivirus/security/firewall program.

tip: "I use user agent switcher"
response: this appears to be something for Chrome and Firefox, not applicable to IE 11

DangeRuss information: "Thank you very much for your detailed bug report. I was able to replicate last night with IE11 on Win 10."
response: That is great, I am glad you could replicate.
[Shows that I’m not crazy and it’s not my Peerblock setup that is the problem. ]

DangeRuss information: "we were able to find a resolution. …It should now be resolved."
response: Thank you for spending time on fixing this. Many people do still use IE 11 (some don’t have a choice).
Unfortunately, it appears that for me tonight, the site’s problems are not resolved and are the same as before.

DangeRuss tip: "maybe IE is not the best option for you… I would suggest Chrome"
response: Thank you, I am aware of the security issues with IE and of the cut-off date of Win 7.
Actually IE 11 isn’t as insecure as some people think, especially when combined with other sorts of security measures and smart behaviors, as compared to the security or not of Firefox and Chrome as they stand today; but beyond that, it is indeed an old browser, and I am running into some sites that no longer support it, which is why I spent a huge amount of time last month learning all about Firefox and installing it very carefully, only in the end to have to get rid of it when I found out that the website which I need to use on a weekly basis which no longer works on IE 11 on Win 7 ALSO doesn’t work on Firefox on Win 7, but they didn’t think to put that Firefox warning in the same announcement as their warning about the site’s not working with IE 11 anymore, so I just assumed that Firefox would be okay for them.
I realize that I will have to install Chrome in order to use that one website on my Win 7 computer, as it’s now my only mainstream-browser choice with that site.
But I don’t like Chrome, I don’t like Google, don’t trust them, and I don’t like the experience of using Chrome, and I also think it’s got safety issues of its own.
Plus I need to understand how to guard against IP leaking, which doesn’t happen on IE 11, but has been a big problem on Chrome and Firefox in the past. (e.g., https://zenguard.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201259661-How-can-I-protect-myself-from-IP-leaks-caused-by-Flash-or-WebRTC-, https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/8204/how-to-stop-webrtc-local-ip-address-leaks-on-google-chrome-and-mozilla-firefox-while-using-private-i, https://www.howtogeek.com/253475/how-to-see-if-your-vpn-is-leaking-your-personal-information/)
I can find a lot on the internet saying that Chrome used to, and it might still, easily allow IP address leaks when using a VPN, but I don’t know the most up-to-date information on guarding against that while using Chrome, or even if there is a specific and reliable fix for it yet on Chrome, so I’d have to read up on it, and to download and set up Chrome carefully from top to bottom, and I don’t have time for that right now.
Besides, it is possible that I’ll have to switch to a Win 10 computer soon, even though I desperately, passionately prefer Win 7. So it’s probably not worth it to spend a lot of time customizing my current computer.

I have just logged in for the second time.

Thank you everyone for the responses. I will address them in turn… in a second message.

First though, some info about my initial setup and my site-browsing experiences at the start of my visit tonight:

I have Peerblock on and DOM Storage off (which are my usual settings. I mention those 2 because they seem to be the cause of most of the internet browsing issues I run into).

When I came to the site tonight, before logging in, I got the swirling circle and a stuck page, and I had to refresh a second time to see the page I was trying to see. This happened with every click I made to go to a new page.

I then logged in. The stuck page and swirling circle continued to happen on each page I tried to go to, and I had to refresh to have the page appear on my screen.
(This gets tiring quickly.)

This may or may not be a function of Peerblock blocking some IPs (although yesterday, turning Peerblock off didn’t help this). Google, ValueClick, Microsoft Azure and Bing are some of those being blocked on this site.
I will now turn Peerblock off and refresh the page 3 times to see what happens: No change, it still happens = the page I navigate to does not appear, and all I see is a swirling circle, until I refresh and then the page appears.

I will now allow DOM storage and refresh the page 3 times then see what happens: No change, it still happens. Frustrating.

I will now attempt to change my site settings (with Peerblock off and DOM storage allowed): No, the changes I made (such as moving from 50 posts per page to 100 posts per page and changing the “skin”) were not saved, and clicking the “save changes” button appeared to do nothing.

I will now try to start a new topic in the Support subforum: As I feared, clicking “new topic” doesn’t do anything. I am not allowed to start a new topic.

So my poor experience tonight of using the site is the same as it was the last time I logged in.

Okay, now I’ll address the comments from above in a second post:

I have to move on to other things this evening, and I’ll check back in a day or two to see if anyone has some ideas for what I can do.

I would appreciate it if you would make my question into its own Support thread.

Even if I am unable to use this site, which would not of much consequence to anyone but me, I do think it would be helpful to other people who may be having the same problems I am to see that it has been described on the Support thread.

If it’s happening to me when my Peerblock is turned off and when DOM storage is allowed, you may have other issues with the site that the 50% of the world that still uses Windows 7 and IE 11 might be experiencing.

Thank you FrugalFreak, I had to refresh 3 times again to read what you added.

Unfortunately, what you added does not help me at all, because, as I say, this site is totally dYsfunctional for me and I cannot post a new topic or save my account settings EVEN WHEN I HAVE PEERBLOCK TURNED OFF. In other words, when I am not blocking any ads or trackers of any kind.

Thanks FrugalFreak, just saw your post (after I refreshed the page 3 times, it came up).

I am glad to see that you, as the Global Moderator, have seen my post here.

I assume that I do not need to email the support email address about my issue, since you folks have now seen my description of my problem, but it would be good for you to put a “contact us” or “about us” link somewhere prominent, so that others who are having questions can immediately find it.

(Or maybe you do have a “contact us” link displayed prominently, maybe I just can’t see it on my screen as an outcome of my various problems in using this site.)

Phew, it posted.

I don’t see an “alert mods” button on individual posts, like there was on FW. Maybe there is one here, and I just can’t view it in my browser. I would have alerted the mod to my above post, so they could move it to the right place.

Would someone let the mods know that this is a new Support question? Thank you.

I apologize for having to put this in this thread – I am writing about a different issue, but nothing I can do in my computer/browser settings is allowing me to get the “make a new topic” button to work for me.

I searched for a “contact us” section where maybe there would be an email address, but I didn’t see one. So I don’t know how else to get the attention of the site team.

I worked out that I am able to reply to a thread that someone else has started. (Although I shouldn’t say that I have worked that out completely, because I don’t know if the “post quick reply” button is going to work!)

I skimmed all the topics in the support subforum, but none of them describe the issues I am having with this site.

The closest other question might be “this site isn’t working for me in Edge”, but I don’t use Edge, so that’s not exactly my problem.

I use IE 11, Windows 7.

The only ad/tracker blocker that I use is a custom set-up of Peerblock, which does a great job for me.

Once in a while on Fatwallet, I would have problems seeing some of the graphics or using some of the buttons, which I would mention on the Fatwallet subforum so that they knew about it. I am fine with not being able to use all of a site’s features, if I don’t want to allow various IPs through for my own privacy and security. I could still enjoy about 90% of Fatwallet, and nothing that I was missing was crucial to my participation there, so I was okay with my compromise.

I signed up a few days ago over at Fragiledeals and I didn’t even notice that anything about the site was hampered by my computer/browser setup - it went great, everything I wanted to do I could do (sign up, edit my settings, start a new thread, post on someone else’s thread.) I don’t really have a problem on most of the internet.

But with Phatwallet, which I just signed up for 15 minutes ago, I’m having a lot of trouble even barely getting around.

Peerblock is blocking a LOT of ads/trackers, that kind of thing, here, although maybe some of them are necessary for rendering the graphics or whatever it is (I forget what those libraries are called). How many trackers etc. are on this?

It is curious, because every single page I go to in Phatwallet is initially screwed up (I just get the swirling circle like it’s trying to load and is stopped in mid-stream), but when I hit the refresh arrow-circle thing at the top of the brower page, the page I’m trying to go to WILL come up readable, so the IPs here that Peerblock is blocking when I first try to view a page do not seem to matter the second time I try to view the page (only 2 seconds later).

I hate to unblock Peerblock wholesale when I’m online, but I will do it in exceptional cases when I have to do an important thing online quickly (e.g., the Anthem insurance website is always very combative with me unless I turn all my protections off and even allow TLS 1.0, so I do that quickly, just to download my EOBs and pay my monthly bills).

After I created my account here, I tried to set up my PhatWallet settings, and I tried saving my choices several different times in several different ways, even turning off Peerblock completely and allowing DOM storage in the IE settings, but the “Save” button wouldn’t do anything, and the next time I’d click on the Settings area, my settings would be back to the default settings.

I came to the Support subforum to ask for help in saving my settings, but, again, I couldn’t get the “create a new thread” button to do anything for me, even after turning off Peerblock entirely and allowing DOM storage.

I realize that I could try another browser, but I would rather not put another browser on my computer.
Plus, I am pressed for time, and putting another browser on, and learning about its features and choosing from the external add-ons and filling in the security gaps and customizing new ad/tracker blockers for that browser and making sure the browser doesn’t allow IP leakage on VPNs, etc., would require me to spend hours of reading and tinkering, in a subject area (I.T.) that I do not enjoy for its own sake but view as a means to an end.
[I actually spent an entire weekend doing that last month for Firefox (which as a browser is going through huge changes, so much of how I set it up would have been wiped out soon anyway, which is very annoying), but then when I was 80% done with that malarkely I discovered that a website that I must use frequently does not work at all on Firefox on Windows 7/IE 11, so I had to scrap the whole thing.]

I don’t know what else to do, to be able to use PhatWallet. I don’t care if I don’t get served some of the graphics or if I can’t “vote” on posts (which I couldn’t do on Fatwallet on the original posts, a.k.a. the first posts in threads, in some of the FW forums, but not in all of the FW forums), but I’m not going to have the patience to refresh every page here twice just to be able to view it, and I need to be able to set my account’s fundamental settings, and to be able to start threads.

Does anyone have any tips for what I could try to change in my setup to allow PhatWallet to work correctly?
I may not agree to reduce my security/privacy setup in order to participate or read this website, but it would be good to know what exactly the stumbling blocks are, and then I could judge whether to allow things through or not, on a case-by-case basis.

If the mods want to create a new Support thread for me, and copy over this post as the OP, that would be appreciated. I do feel bad about injecting myself into someone else’s thread.

And now to click on “post quick reply” button, fingers crossed…