Hi Dave,

I’m not sure how to follow your instructions on clearing any cookies other than using the Safari internet access.
You wrote this.
“This problem may be compounded if your cookies are cloud shared on multiple devices. In that case you may need to close off all browser apps (including background instances), then one at a time doing a website data clear on each device before opening the browser back up and accssing the brickboard.”

As far as I know I do not have any other browsers or Apps.
What’s meant by in the background.
I do have Two IPads and a IPhone as the wife’s hand-me-downs so linked to themselves is very likely but hers are separate as far as I know and she doesn’t get 403 messages. She doesn’t try the BRICKBOARD either. It’s my domain for sanity. (:-)
I only have what default search engine I select in Safari, of which, are either Duck Duck Go or my recent on from ECOSIA.
It is based in Berlin, Germany and trying to use its profits to plant trees.
It’s been a struggle for them as they are fighting Google’s monopoly and data gathering efforts too.

The more you want done without an effort on your part gives them a gateway to many avenues of back door entries.
This is only my opinion based on very little evidence because I stay closed up by very limited use of the internet. It’s all too crazy for my tastes.

You asked….
“Were these posts of yours that disappeared or didn't register new posts at the start of a thread? Or just replies that disappeared on you?”

The 403 messages appears very randomly.
It has seemed more often using Duck Duck than the ECOSIS search engine so far.
I don’t post many threads on my on questions of repair .
I just don’t have that many issues. Mainly because I live in a nicer climate that doesn’t beat cars to death with seasonal extremes.
I usually reply and write and post.
I’m either nearly first or the last one.
The last one to works out a lot of times as almost everything has already been said or the OP never responds back with a conclusion.
That leaves us all hanging!

The fact is I try to copy this to notes and then post.
On this thread the very thread it disappeared but came back into play much later missing any sign of my replying post.
I believe I was number one, then, but by the time I posted there was another one up the next day by itself. I didn’t care to try again and probably wrote too much anyways.

This was the worst that it has gotten to be, losing the thread.
I assumed that Jarrod may have taken the server off line at that moment.

I have had days of no BRICKBOARD at all too!
Only to find out he works on the site. No set time for him to do it.
I have been patient as it’s mostly entertainment for me.

Others wanting a fix are not that compassionate and might never use the board as often.
So it’s a tough balance on pushing email notifications but an email suggesting that there “is” traffic on the thread of at least “readership” it might plant more tolerance within the waiting and watching aspects.

Another reason to have a profile on here and not using “claiming to be.”
Knowing the state or town that the car is in, tells a lot about the condition and type care that went into a cars past.
Personality and car characteristics both “do” make used cars worth owning and chatting about.

The email spacing seems to be very instant and I have wondered what is received in an email is ever changed by the edit except on the thread in the board.
I haven’t tried to compare things for any edits. The link goes to the BRICKBOARD anyway, if you want to follow up with them all.

The whole iCloud process must be global but one has to think that Microsoft and Google are kissing cousins to say the least. China has been mindful of this and plays harder ball within their controls.

I’m skeptical that eventually the Internet will be held hostage to renting everything with a “value” set on them knowing how much they know about the requesters.
Wheeling and dealing causes lots of drawbacks to gaining knowledge for all of us.
How those powers are ultimately use throughout the planet is called evolution, if we can survive the time it takes.

I can say cars and storage batteries will not be the great answer in the near future. It’s turning into such a mess, IMHO.
Hydrogen as a fuel with fuel cells and super capacitors are better than chasing our tails the way we are heading.
Ask about 30 other countries that are working on Hydrogen technology. Safer than gasoline or propane and a lot more abundant.
It’s everywhere with no country boundaries to fight over.
We all need each other!

Thanks for the conversation and I’m admiring your posts.
I’m glad to have you ask me these questions even though I do not know any answers to them specifically.
Yes, Jarrod has done very good with managing and having this site for us all.

Phil