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IBM
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My bad, ironically those posts didn't load properly, so I hadn't seen them when originally posting.
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Pete
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coldiceattk wrote: Fri 25 Jul, 2025 06.06 I wonder if the admins here will create a shelter for Pres Café users outside the UK and Ireland.
no. get a grip.
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Charlie Wells
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coldiceattk wrote: Fri 25 Jul, 2025 06.06 I wonder if the admins here will create a shelter for Pres Café users outside the UK and Ireland.
I'd recommend trying a VPN, though you may have to try a couple different connection points. Occasionally my VPN connection gets blocked by the site and I have to switch VPN location (within the UK), though in fairness I also sometimes experience issues when connecting to other sites.
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Left Hand Man
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coldiceattk wrote: Fri 25 Jul, 2025 06.06 I wonder if the admins here will create a shelter for Pres Café users outside the UK and Ireland.
It's dead. Move on.
Tardisrotor
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Don't know if this is suitable but there is an Australian forum called "Media Spy" which is naturally Austro-centric but it does have a British sub-section

https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/british-television/667
cysjunk
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Charlie Wells wrote: Fri 25 Jul, 2025 12.55
coldiceattk wrote: Fri 25 Jul, 2025 06.06 I wonder if the admins here will create a shelter for Pres Café users outside the UK and Ireland.
I'd recommend trying a VPN, though you may have to try a couple different connection points. Occasionally my VPN connection gets blocked by the site and I have to switch VPN location (within the UK), though in fairness I also sometimes experience issues when connecting to other sites.
The irony is that Pres Cafe has an international presentation thread under Channel Presentation, and yet the international users can't access it now. I am from the US and had noticed the block had started with absolutely no announcement or notice that I could see. They didn't even bother putting a message there, they use the generic CloudFlare block screen.

I also have a feeling that it's only a matter of time before the pres sites that made Pres Cafe in the first place (the TV Pres group) start to block access to their own sites outside the UK. Not a good time for the hobby.
Tardisrotor
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Agree 100 percent. I'm autistic (sorry if I've mentioned it before) and TVF etc have been a source of great comfort to me. The changes and "politics" are heartbreaking. I do fear that our little hobby will soon go the way of the dodo
cdd
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Tardisrotor wrote: Thu 31 Jul, 2025 15.13I do fear that our little hobby will soon go the way of the dodo
It probably will / has, but that's more to do with television dying as a medium than forum "changes and politics". TBH I only look at the historical threads on Pres Cafe.
Tardisrotor
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cdd wrote: Fri 01 Aug, 2025 03.56
Tardisrotor wrote: Thu 31 Jul, 2025 15.13I do fear that our little hobby will soon go the way of the dodo
It probably will / has, but that's more to do with television dying as a medium than forum "changes and politics". TBH I only look at the historical threads on Pres Cafe.
Times change and so must we...damn shame though.
adtr223
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I'm not too upset about the block more bummed as I enjoyed reading about pres from outside my own sphere.

Just sucks that there was no warning given before the block and when given a reason after the fact it seemed very "PR", but hey it's their forum and they owe no one an explanation for blocks, bans, etc.
Tardisrotor
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adtr223 wrote: Sat 02 Aug, 2025 02.13 I'm not too upset about the block more bummed as I enjoyed reading about pres from outside my own sphere.

Just sucks that there was no warning given before the block and when given a reason after the fact it seemed very "PR", but hey it's their forum and they owe no one an explanation for blocks, bans, etc.

Try mediaspy.

https://forums.mediaspy.org/
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