I can see that there are currently very few active members (nothing to do with xmas), and even previously frequent posters have disappeared, or seldom appear. Obviously, some members may have passed away, but if you are still here, please break your silence and let us know why you have stopped posting or commenting.

Lack of use will influence the future of Scooploop.

I have just been contacted by Scooploop, and both of these matters will be dealt with very soon. Accounts will be deleted and loops moderated.

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UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vx0pgyrgo

If you have Google accounts that you don't use (They may be for a rescue email address or extra storage, etc.), be sure to use them as below, or they will be deleted.

This can also happen with providers of any other type of account that you have.
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https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

Openreach has closed down the telephone exchange in Deddington, Oxfordshire. It is the first of 4600 telephone exchanges to be closed.

Post from a closed loop that you don't belong to being shown.

Old posts and suggested loops are appearing.

Some members PMs have not been working for a long time. If you want to overcome this, you can try creating another account with PM in the account name, which you may have to shorten.

There is nothing you can do about missing notifications.

To see my e mails I had to set up a lock screen password but now I can't get into my phone.
How do I unlock it ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o

I don't know why it's happening but my FB feed is full of posts from a group I've never even looked at, it's driving me mad because 1 in every 3 posts is from that group. I've clicked on the 3 dots and told it to hide the posts but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Is it happening to anyone else and is there a solution?

If you use Google email to collect email from other email providers, note that this service will no longer be available from January 2026.

https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0/nov25a/donate/?form=nov25&utm_content=cta_a&utm_source=in_app&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=nov25_appeal

https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LandingPage&country=GB&uselang=en&wmf_medium=spontaneous&wmf_source=fr-redir&wmf_campaign=spontaneous

Does anyone have a particular recommendation? I normally dream up my own passwords, which I keep in a locked Word doc (not named 'Passwords'!) but had an alarm the other night when I got a pop-up on a Safari page saying my Mac had been hacked – I swiftly crashed it then created a new password to get into it. Today I've been told by a knowledgeable friend that didn't necessarily mean it really had been hacked, but I'm wondering if a password manager might be a good idea - though Intego should warn me of any intrusion and did, if indeed it was hacked. I don't know what a warning from Intego would look like, as opposed to the pop-ups my friend referred to. (Does any of that make sense? I've been fretting over this for some while this afternoon and am losing it altogether, I think!) Anyway, Roboform, Nordpass and 1Password seem to be well-recommended password managers.

I have to replace the wired speakers on my PC as they are playing up badly (sound keeps going up and down). I've connected a small bluetooth speaker that I use with my phone for playing music but each time I go to use it with the PC I have to reconnect the bluetooth setting. So I'm thinking of trying better quality bluetooth speakers and I was wondering if anyone uses bluetooth speakers with their PC and doesn't have to constantly reset the bluetooth connection each time it's being used.

This morning watching news on the TV a box appeared saying something like "Terence's ipad wishes to voice share with your TV" with options to accept, decline or block. As i moved the curdor downtowards decline the message disappeared. Anyone seen this sort of thing before?

Scooploop was down this morning due to its certificate expiring. This has now been renewed for only three months, which does not look good. So if there are members you want to keep in contact with, if you haven't already done so after a previous outage, now would be a good time.

Advice from the Police:

'It is much easier to steal a mobile phone when it is in use or on display. When you are using your mobile phone in a public place try and be aware of your surroundings and anyone that is perhaps stood close to you. In order to help prevent theft of your mobile phone keep it in a secure place on your person or in your bag.

You should keep your contract or mobile phone box with the IMEI/serial number on it, in a safe place as the police will need to see evidence that you owned the phone, in the event that it is stolen. The contract or box are the only means of evidence the police will accept. A recent bill or delivery note will not be sufficient.

The IMEI/serial number on your phone is a number that is unique to your mobile phone. To find out what your IMEI number is type *#06# into your phone.

You can also protectively mark your mobile phone.'

I have been asked about hidden loops, these are called 'private' loops which are invisible to non-members. You cannot join these loops, you have to be invited. There are 'closed' loops, which are visible, but the contents are visible only to members, and you have to apply to join. These loops have many real members (not advertisers), so much of the activity on Scooploop is unseen by non-members.

Unless you arranged an extension, you are no longer receiving security updates.

I am being asked what can be done about the racist and abusive posts. With the absence of @CliveF and Scooploop moderators, the only thing that can be done is when you are the originator of a post is to block those members to prevent them making use of your post.

I am no longer in contact with a member(s) of Scooploop. One of the last things they were working on was the Politics loops whose owners were no longer around. One recently reappeared, but then disappeared again! I don't know how far they got before they (the staff) disappeared again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20vlpwrzwdo

I am aware of the racist posts in Anything, and now disgusting comments are being made. This is all down to the absence of moderation by the moderator, who may no longer be with us. If you are in touch with @CliveF please inform him of what is happening. The future of Scooploop is uncertain at the moment, and this will not help.
To those of you who think that your identity cannot be traced, you have no idea of the information that can be used to identify you. A VPN will not help you, there are other ways. This happened in the infamous Kahuti, and the culprit was traced.
If Clive is no longer around, or fails to take action, then you can do your part by not engaging with these members and leave them to talk to themselves.

The owner of Scooploop is no longer contactable, and the promised updates did not appear. Many members have given up posting/commenting/reacting. Scooploop is now basically only about a dozen active members. Also many loops are no longer or little used, and a major problem on the site is a lack of moderation. It is a wonder that Scooploop is still going. You should not be surprised if Scooploop disappears.

*Even if Scooploop's forum website disappears, that is not necessarily the end of Scooploop Ltd, as its registered business is 'Software development', not a social forum.

The text has gone very small and I am unable to change it
tried going from 12 to 20 but it didn't alter at all
What can I do ?

Scanner for iPhone please

All of a sudden this msg pops up every time I post replies! I`m about to find out if it does the same when I make a new post!! It seems to allow new posts without this. Refreshing cures it but I wonder why?

Unless you have a backup power supply, or a satellite phone, then at the moment you would be unable to make a phone call*. This may change next year when you will be able to use an ordinary smartphone to make calls via satellite. This is called D2D (Direct to device).

*If you still have an analogue landline plugged into a BT socket, then you will still be able to make a phone call.

Didn`t used to have a problem but recently I can`t view when post on SL.
The link works and I briefly see the video is there but it`s interupted by a pop-up(clearly Tik-Tok produced not an advert) obscuring the video & asking my interests. Play along and you just get to the next page of the pop-up asking you to sign up or login. No way I can see to get past it.Any ideas?

https://www.scooploop.com/thread/decided-to-cancel-my-microsoft-365-subscription

I can see that various members are having problems with basic web/computer activities. Viewing YouTube videos should present no problems, and they can be viewed without adverts. Facebook links do not require you to be a member of Facebook to view them. Website links should not be the result of a search, they should be the address of what you want to show; you should always click the link and not the image.

If you need help, you can make a post in this loop.

I can see there is some confusion, you do not have to belong to Facebook or sign in to Facebook to see links.

The clipboard has disappeared from my taskbar - how can I get it back ?
Google/Microsoft directions do not work

If you wear hearing aids, you must turn off Bluetooth.

There will be various ways to extend the life of Windows 10 for another year. Google for details.

https://www.scooploop.com/thread/abusive-pmsstalkingtrollingpersonal-comments-d01ed

If I want to dispose of a smart phone, do I have to do anything other than remove the sim card, ie, does that remove all information - thanks.

Be sure to keep a safe record of your password, as the 'forgot password' no longer works. This may account for the recent disappearance of various members, as well as the unmoderated racist posts/comments.

I wouldn't describe myself as a non-techie but I’d like to pick the brains of our computer experts:
I have two NAS enclosures, each with four hard disc drives.
The enclosures are Western Digital EX4100 boxes with Western digital red drives.
I want to try and protect my data from disasters so I could set each enclosure up to have two drives in a mirrored RAID configuration which would protect me against the failure of a drive, but that doesn’t protect me against fire, theft and so on which could wipe out a box and both copies of the data.
So I’d like to have the two enclosures set to JBOD and have one enclosure at home and the other at a different location, such as my dad’s house, with the data synchronised over the internet.
Both of us have fast internet connections, and my dad is ok with hosting the enclosure, so I’d need a way that each drive in one enclosure is automatically mirrored to the corresponding drive of the other enclosure over the internet.
I don’t know if an EX4100 can be set up to automatically mirror itself to another EX4100 or if I’d need to have a computer between them.
If need be I have a spare computer which is on my home network which could be left running 24-7 to handle the synchronising. It’s only an i5 with 4GB RAM, a 320GB hard disc and Windows 10 but I wouldn’t expect I’d need a powerful computer to do this.
I’d welcome advice on how to set this up, how to configure the NAS enclosures and what software I might need.

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https://www.scooploop.com/thread/new-loop-41ba8

Note that Dropbox will close it's password manager on 28th October 22025.
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https://help.dropbox.com/installs/dropbox-passwords-discontinuation

If you use the free version of Dashlane, note that it and all your passwords will be deleted on 16th September 2025.

Members are posting links that do not work. This can be avoided by testing the link before you post it. You should avoid links that require special access.

You can practice links or anything else in the Workshop

https://www.scooploop.com/loops/scooploop-workshop

Microsoft technicians have been working flat out for years to do away with the BSOD. They have finally achieved their objective by changing it to the Black Screen of Death. So its new name is the BSOD!😁

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/2092681/uks-worst-broadband-confirmed

There are currently two politics loops, neither of which can be joined due to the absence of a moderator. If you would like to engage with other members that are already members of the active politics loop, then make your wish known below, and I'll see what I can do. The best thing to do, would be to have the unused politics loop activated, this would remove the advertisers, and the current members of the original loop can join the unused one.
Please add your name through the link below:
https://www.scooploop.com/thread/politics-loops