Glad we are back

pyjama princess said:

There’s a Facebook page called ShoppingTelly.com

Click to expand...

I’m not on Facebook.

I put ShoppingTelly.com into the search engine and couldn’t find it. I did find other shopping channels on Facebook though which were either out of date or featured presenters that aren’t on QVC.

No problem though as I’ve got strato’s email address.

Grizelda said:

Did you get my e mail? Should I send it again since I didn't put the name Grizelda on it? From my email, you probably don't know who I am!

Click to expand...

That's why I put Patsy on my email.
Maybe he's not online yet.

Have created a fallback email for this forum on Gmail for members to stay in contact if the forum goes down again:

[email protected]

May consider sharing the account password so everyone can access and use it to swap messages and see others email addresses but that might be a privacy issue.
What I might be able to do is create a bcc distribution list autoreply rule and use it as an auto-mailer distribution list to email addresses if people let me know an email they want to be on the list?
What do you think? Any suggestions?

Long ago when the forum went down for more than 24 hours a forum was created on another platform. I can't remember what it was now, but everyone had to use their real name to join it. People came on and said oh I am by the way.

https://www.facebook.com/shoppingtelly/

I'm sorry we did not get a notice out to everyone yesterday during the outage. I have made a note to post there if we cannot get on the forum, so others can check there for updates.

The server did crash and it took longer than usual to get it back, but it is up and stable. We very seldom have any server outages.

I apologize for the worry you all had being concerned. Please make sure to like or save the FB link.

Tech Admin said:

https://www.facebook.com/shoppingtelly/

I'm sorry we did not get a notice out to everyone yesterday during the outage. I have made a note to post there if we cannot get on the forum, so others can check there for updates.

The server did crash and it took longer than usual to get it back, but it is up and stable. We very seldom have any server outages.

I apologize for the worry you all had being concerned. Please make sure to like or save the FB link.

Click to expand...

Thanks. Is the site just the forum/threads now? No front page with tv streams and latest news items anymore?
@Tech Admin

It is just the forum now.

candycane said:

Could someone set up an empty email address on Hotmail or something and if anything did happen to the site we could all send a message to that address and get back in touch/find out what's going on? Would that work?

CC

Click to expand...

[email protected]

I'll monitor it if there's a problem in future if people drop an alias/secondary email there if you're happy to be contacted. Probably best not to use any identifying or primary email.

Grizelda said:

Did you get my e mail? Should I send it again since I didn't put the name Grizelda on it? From my email, you probably don't know who I am!

Click to expand...

I may not be able to access my email at the moment as visiting OH and may not be able to remember the password, will make some attempts later and let you know

stratobuddy said:

I may not be able to access my email at the moment as visiting OH and may not be able to remember the password, will make some attempts later and let you know

Click to expand...

Thank you. I hope you haven't taken too much on yourself by volunteering this help to Shopping Telly members.

I miraculously remembered my password (my home PC remembers it).

I've now replied to 3 more emails, not sure which ones as different names to the forum names.

So that's 7 in total..

You can EITHER make a note of my email address and keep it somewhere safe, in case the forum goes down again. ALTERNATIVELY you can continue to email me (if not already done so) then if the forum goes down I will eontact you myself.

Grizelda said:

Thank you. I hope you haven't taken too much on yourself by volunteering this help to Shopping Telly members.

Click to expand...

Not at all, if I notice the forum is down then I can just reply to everyone who has emailed me so we can see if it is widespread. Or you can email me if you have kept my email somewhere safe and can find it LOL.

[email protected] (it is not used for anything else, I only had to set it up so I could set up my phone).

I returned from holiday just a few days ago and decided to go online to pay bills, check banking and emails etc but my laptop had died a death. A local tech place looked at it and told me just how poorly it was and how much it would cost to repair and seeing as I`d had the laptop for a number of years I decided to buy a new one instead.
I was setting it up (which is a total pain for a non tech person like me ) and was using a different search engine than my last pc. I searched for my favourite sites and they all loaded except ST. I tried and tried but it still wouldn`t load and I`ll have you know I was so gutted and so mad that my new search engine wouldn`t let me access ST that I nearly returned the laptop to the company I bought from and to swap it for one which would load ST. Am I thick or what ...... don`t answer that. I`m a pen and paper girl at heart !

stratobuddy said:

Not at all, if I notice the forum is down then I can just reply to everyone who has emailed me so we can see if it is widespread. Or you can email me if you have kept my email somewhere safe and can find it LOL.

[email protected] (it is not used for anything else, I only had to set it up so I could set up my phone).

Click to expand...

Thanks, Stratobuddy. I've made a note.

stratobuddy said:

I miraculously remembered my password (my home PC remembers it).

I've now replied to 3 more emails, not sure which ones as different names to the forum names.

So that's 7 in total..

You can EITHER make a note of my email address and keep it somewhere safe, in case the forum goes down again. ALTERNATIVELY you can continue to email me (if not already done so) then if the forum goes down I will eontact you myself.

Click to expand...

Nice one.

As a backup I created: [email protected]

i.e. <this website's address>@gmail.com

So if you forget [email protected] or need an alternative you can remember/use that also and I'll try to do similar.