Harold Drabkin, This has been happening to me for a while, too. I receive a message about something that was given away yesterday - so it's of no use today, just like today's effort. One day not long ago I received an e-mail which offered freebies from four different days - most of which, of course, were just annoying because it was too late! The e-mails do arrive quite a bit later than they used to do, even when they are still available on the actual day I receive them. I have been thinking quite seriously about just ending my visits here, but occasionally - much less often than used to happen - there is something interesting, useful and - most important of all, really - still available, still on the day of the actual offer.

I have mentioned this before on this page, several times, but I've never had an answer, so I'm still no wiser as to what the blazes has gone wrong with this GAOTD page. If it makes any difference, I'm in the UK, so perhaps the powers-that-be have decided that we over here are simply not worth including in the offers?

;-(

S Whintor, I'm on the US East Coas (EST). Have used this site for many years but this is happening all of a sudden.
Sometimes I get an email around 10PM PST even.

Harold Drabkin, Yes, I'm getting the e-mails a lot later than I used to - I've had some with about an hour left before the daily giveaway runs out! Which doesn't give me much time to check them out and decide if I want the freebie. But then as I mentioned, some even arrive the day after or even later, which is even less useful. The ones that arrive with several offers of programmes which have already run out are the most infuriating, though. If somebody somewhere collects a list from three or four days back and sends them as a GAOTD - well, it obviously won't be much use to anybody!

I did wonder if the timeslip was connected to the current pandemic, which is causing a lot of hiccups in so many ways. But if that's the case, surely it would make more sense to either allow more time for people to check out several days' worth at a time, without them running out in the meantime, or else just call a halt to GAOTD, with the hope of restarting once the Plague has quietened down. Sending out lists which people cannot possibly try out is such a waste of everyone's time.

Oh well - I hope they manage to get it sorted out soon. It used to be a good way of trying things out before committing yourself to buying something new, but this current business is just frustrating and annoying, and I fear it will put people off coming in to see what's on offer today.

Fadi, I also get the same error! and not only here I, this has been the problem for this app, I got another from shareware but during registration, this error occurs!!!

Fadi, Keep on trying!
I kept on trying thousands times and eventually on giving up I got it!!!
I don't know if was because of that, but I was already given up and closes all the browsers preparing to put off my PC and during process I noticed the message saying success!!! so you may try closing browsers

Fadi, probably your 3rd party firewall or firewall control silently denies outbound connection attempts on newly installed programs, if you can enable it to alert you and give you the choice of allowing outbound connections or not it will likely resolve the issue or at worst changing the firewall profile setting to reduce the severity of its paranoia.

Fadi, There site wont load either. They are getting bombarded with registration request or they are completely down. Hopefully they get their servers back up and running.

Jaroslav, hi, back in 2019 - when it was last given away here - it would only work with MS Office. Now it also supports Kingsoft but not Libre.

Check this comment from the developer: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/thesesassistdrawer/#comment-641114

You can try getting it to work but there is no mention anywhere of Libre support, so expect it to not work with it as said.

I'm also "only" on Word 2013 - even tho it works great still - and out of luck too, time to upgrade i guess. :D

Hi Jaroslav. No, it doesn't. It only works with MS Word and Kingsoft WPS.

Jaroslav, there are lots of template support for Libre office, I have found similar designs as this one. So look for it, you may find not the same design, but similar.

Jaroslav, the system requirements *should* state Microsoft Word and what versions it works with as this is a Microsoft Word Add-in component so unless libre office has added the MS Word add-in API there is no chance of it working, sorry.