Problem accessing TPI

[Totem Polar]

It’s fugly, but I can access all the info.

[BigD]

I'm in for the first time in months. I hope everyone comes back.

It's pretty dead over there. That's too bad.

[Ed L]

When I log in I get a message that says, "I'm sorry buy you are not authorized to view this page." But then when I click on "Forum" on the upper left hand corner it lets me in.

This is a huge problem, since many people who try to log in and see that message and just give up.

It is a shame that you are having these problems and had the downtime. TPI is a great forum with some very experienced and knowledgeable posters.

I prefer forums to facebook for a number of reasons:

1. They are organized by category and topic in chronological order so it is very easy to find things. This makes for a nice repository of knowledge that can be accessed years later. Forget about trying to find something posted on facebook a few days ago.

2. I prefer to post with an anon handle or one that doesn't have my full name for privacy reasons in a place where all of my FB friends will not see it when I talk about certain topics. Yes, I do not have my full name on my FB account, but still, I have a wide variety of friends and family that I just as soon not discuss certain things with or see my thoughts on certain things. Even though there are closed facebook groups, they do not break things down by category and topic in a chronological order that is easy to find the way a forum does.\

3. These forums are focused on specific issues that you can find and discuss, whereas with facebook you have to wade through a lot of crap to find interesting posts, and there are many posts that you don't even see.

[fwrun]

TPI opened me up to ideas and concepts I use on a daily basis. It’s incredible how much I didn’t know. The older posts are especially enlightening. Not sure I can recall ever posting, but the reading material is priceless.

[Ed L]

It turns out that I was bookmarked to the old url which had a 'Non-SSL' Http link. Thanks to the help of Seth the admin. He instructed me to "check the URL bar to see if you are on the Https forum."

I did so and he was right. So I logged into the forum, deleted my old link which was to an http adddress rather than an https address, and then bookmarked the forum: https://www.totalprotectioninteractive.com/forum/ and logging on was the same as before and it rememebered my login so I could just click on the forum and go there.

[RJ]

It turns out that I was bookmarked to the old url which had a 'Non-SSL' Http link. Thanks to the help of Seth the admin. He instructed me to "check the URL bar to see if you are on the Https forum."

I did so and he was right. So I logged into the forum, deleted my old link which was to an http adddress rather than an https address, and then bookmarked the forum: https://www.totalprotectioninteractive.com/forum/ and logging on was the same as before and it rememebered my login so I could just click on the forum and go there.

Thanks for this.

I was able to login from Safari on an iPad just now.

[BigD]

Forums are dead. People much prefer to use FB and IG -- thereby enriching the FB and IG executives who will use their millions and billions to create the society that they desire (and which doesn't include any of these icky guns or guys that like to fight with each other for fun). Enjoy your FB groups while they last.

Reddit has to be hurting traditional forums too.

[Rex G]

It turns out that I was bookmarked to the old url which had a 'Non-SSL' Http link. Thanks to the help of Seth the admin. He instructed me to "check the URL bar to see if you are on the Https forum."

I did so and he was right. So I logged into the forum, deleted my old link which was to an http adddress rather than an https address, and then bookmarked the forum: https://www.totalprotectioninteractive.com/forum/ and logging on was the same as before and it rememebered my login so I could just click on the forum and go there.

This link worked! It not only worked, but “remembered” me, so I did not even have to sign in.

Thanks!

[Rex G]

Well, my first short reply I typed worked. Another reply, a bit longer, did not work. Error message.