Arfcom is down - Killed by commies at least down for the moment

[sharps54]

I'll be moving to ProtonMail in 2021 ,more or less for good. I've had an account there for about six months. I tried the "plus" pay plan, however due to a miscommunication I didn't understand the features, and cancelled. To Proton's credit, they refunded me my entire annual subscription that remained. It was a very efficient process and their CS rep could not have been more helpful.

Anyway, I still have the free account, and also make use of their free ProtonVPN service when we travel.

Do you normally use a VPN at home? Not trying to pry so feel free to be vague, I'm just wondering why only use ProtonVPN for travel?

[EPF]

Well, this is amusing.

In support of this site, I applied for an account today.

It just got "denied".

The reason given was the screen name I chose (based on my email, without the "at" whatever dot com) wasn't allowed. I have used a two digit suffix on most of my accounts, for years. But apparently having those two digits (numbers) on an account username isn't permitted there.

Ok then.

Quite a few years ago they started requiring non-anonymous email for registration due to all the bots, hackers, and trolls on a site that large. It’s been many years since I spent time there but it was a real issue that they had few ways to solve.

[Guerrero]

Can't confirm, but ProtonMail may be having issues as about an hour ago. Another forum member tried to send me a message from a Gmail account, and weird stuff happened.

I'm a long time ProtonMail user.

ProtonMail seems to have gotten it's stuff sorted out. It wasn't just me, the Reddit group reported the same issue I saw.

[HeavyDuty]

Funny I just had my first issue here in weeks reading this thread...

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Use 308 rather than 15. I don't go there.

[mtnbkr]

Funny I just had my first issue here in weeks reading this thread...

Got the same, but hitting F5 cleared it up.

Chris

[FNFAN]

This link is to the protonmail.com blog and gives a little info on their planned development. They're going to integrate a calendar function "soon"

https://protonmail.com/blog/v4-beta-announcement/

You can access the beta site by logging in at the https://beta.protonmail.com site. The user interface upgrades are nice and the calendar feature integration is great.

[mmc45414]

I just deactivated my Twitter account.

Not a very big sacrifice on my part, I really only used it one day. When some of the riots were going on, I forget which one now, there was some minor small city participation near my wife's shop. She needed to go do something so I went with her, and kept monitoring the situation on my phone. The local newspaper (that I pay for to get past their paywall) kept reporting that mostly peaceful protesters were trying to get up a ramp and block a nearby highway, and police from a variety of agencies were dissuading them from doing so, all about 2,000yds from where we were (where it was a beautiful and calm day). When it occurred to me that everything the newspaper was posting was just reporting what the PD had been tweeting, I signed up for Twitter and followed the local PD. It was pretty helpful for that one day.

Then a while back I realized social media was frequently making me angry instead of happy and I pulled the apps offa my phone and never looked at it again, managing to never send a single tweet, something that quite possibly would have happened when I was shitfaced.

I know it is like a flea biting an elephant, but I had to do a password reset to get access to it to close the account. I do admit I got a little bit of satisfaction from:

[trailrunner]

Well, this is amusing.

In support of this site, I applied for an account today.

It just got "denied".

The reason given was the screen name I chose (based on my email, without the "at" whatever dot com) wasn't allowed. I have used a two digit suffix on most of my accounts, for years. But apparently having those two digits (numbers) on an account username isn't permitted there.

Ok then.

I tried to sign up of an account with them years ago. They couldn't seem to send the confirmation email to my @Mac.com address. After three or four tries, I gave up.

[holmes168]

I’d recommend Protonmail.

i give Proton Mail a second and a whole hearted endorsement. I use it for any type of sensitive emails.