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Cannot connect to the QQ website

Rentoba

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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.
 
Rentoba said:
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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QQ has a website?! I thought it was just a forum. What is it about?
 
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).
 
january1may said:
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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(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.)
 
MissileTeatime said:
(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.)
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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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