You have no bans, no warnings and no reports on your account.

I'm eager to know more on this shadow banning....

Only recent changes were some forums were merged and foreign language forums were archived.

Post both in 1 topic and host your high res images on IMGUR and link them into the post.

No worries, they instantly get dissolved with the matter mentioned above.

thanks, TIG.

@tuna1957 said:

Last few days if I click on the PluginStore link I get the attached privacy warning ?

Hi Tuna1957,

Thank you for reporting this message. Could you please tell me which browser are you using and what kind of virus / malware protection are you using? That would be a huge help if you could PM me that part of your virus protection log where this error is detailed. Also: is the problem still existing?

Like I said, I don't care why you want to change your username. I don't understand why you've created two different users, either. I've changed the username on the one you used initially to contact me and I've deleted your other username. Sign in under your "BlackWizard" username and please fix your profile with the correct SketchUp version.

Juju, you are drinking better wine than mine.

Seems not.
I am getting notifications now, I think. Perhaps there's some sort of entropy... If one doesn't visit the site for a while? Perhaps I cleaned up my browser of cookies etc?

Not a biggie tho Gabor. Thanks.
Baz.
PS: The site has always been very slow to load, and now I on a data diet, it takes for ever.
Do you have anyway to reduce the sites data size?
For example the Skalp banner ad I am looking at now, the image alone is 279.19 KB (285,888 bytes). Cos its a GIF. Any options on the site to turn em' off?

@rv1974 said:

....If I already signed in to forum why do we need an extra authorization?.....

I suppose you are asking about the pluginstore at the website not the pluginstore plugin. In this case the reason is:

The sketchucation site uses PhpBB engine for the forums and Joomla CMS for all the other content including the pluginstore. They are bridged together so when you log in to one of them you're also logged in to the other one as well. A major factor for the performance of the Joomla side is the number of simultaneously logged in people. The more people are logged in at the same time the slower the Joomla part of the site becomes.

This slowdown is especially significant in case of more than about 50 000 simultaneously logged in users. To prevent this from happening we set a 6 hours timeout at the Joomla part of the site. It means that if you weren't active at the Joomla part for 6 hours you'll be automatically logged out from it while still logged in to PhpBB (forums). We'll try to find a solution for this at the new version of the site (under development). Until then when you remain inactive at the Joomla side of the site for more than 6 hours you need to log in again.

I hope the above answers your question.

@pilou said:

As the anti-virus was appeared as soon the Forum https://sketchucation.com/forums you don't think that the "malicious" could't be on one of the numerous Publicities ?

Do you refer to the site ads as "Publicities"? For the ads we use a 3rd party ad provider (BySellAds). In theory it is possible that if their server was infected it had an effect on us as well. But they are a very well established and maintained ad providing service so I doubt if it was a problem on their side.