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.
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.