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Cannot connect to the QQ website

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by Rentoba, Oct 9, 2019.

  1. Rentoba

    Rentoba Shocked Panda

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    For the last 3 days I've been unable to connect to QQ. I assumed the site was simply down for whatever reason, but this morning I checked on isitdownrightnow, which said the site was up. This got me wondering so I tried via another computer. All good. However this computer has a VPN which turns on automatically, so I tried without it on and suddenly no access. So, clearly something is going on and I'm guessing it might be ISP related but I haven't any idea how to confirm that or how to go about fixing that problem. Any advice is greatly appreciated and sorry if this is the wrong place for this.
     
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    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    If the problem is your ISP, there's not really anything you can do other than changing ISP or, as you've seen, using a VPN.
     
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    Rentoba Shocked Panda

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    Damn. I guess I'll have to see about setting up the VPN on my computer then, Thanks.
     
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    Mana_Knight_Jorin The Mana Knight

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    QQ has a website?! I thought it was just a forum. What is it about?
     
    Mana_Knight_Jorin, Oct 13, 2019
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    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    It's just a forum. Forums are a kind of website.
     
    alethiophile, Oct 14, 2019
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    Mana_Knight_Jorin The Mana Knight

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  7. january1may

    january1may Versed in the lewd.

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    As far as I understand it, forums are not technically "a kind of website", as such, but a kind of thing that a website can have.

    It's just that some websites (QQ among them; SV is another example) don't have anything on them except a forum, while others have both a forum and a separate non-forum part (or at least a technically non-forum landing page), and some have no forum at all (because they're not that kind of website).
     
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  8. MissileTeatime

    MissileTeatime By the power of Vaporware!

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    (Technically, you can have an internet forum that's not on a website. It's just that they've been supplanted by the web forums, so if any are even still online they're irrelevant to anyone who doesn't already personally use them. The area of the "forum" part of the Venn diagram which doesn't overlap with "website" has withered from disuse.)

    (Or I guess there's stuff like Google's private internal forums, but those wouldn't count as a website regardless of what software they use because they're not on the wider web.)
     
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    january1may Versed in the lewd.

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    ...Oh, as in Usenet and/or Fidonet, and maybe all those weird mailgroup things?

    I honestly thought that even they were a variety of website, but maybe I'm just so much of a newbie here that I don't really care that much about the difference between "internet" and "the web".
    (And, IIRC, Fidonet - not that there's much left of it - technically isn't supposed to be part of "the internet" either.)
     
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