What's happened to the front page?

post by orthonormal · 2010-12-26T23:30:15.372Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 15 comments

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http://lesswrong.com is suddenly redirecting to a Tibetan meditation site. What the hell?

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comment by Scott Alexander (Yvain) · 2010-12-27T09:45:57.698Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I cleared my history/cache in Firefox and the problem went away. Don't know why.

comment by Psy-Kosh · 2010-12-27T01:23:28.898Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Ah, I just came here to post about that.

Some sort of bizzare DNS error? (I wouldn't be able to get to internal pages like this if that was the case, though?)

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comment by Randaly · 2010-12-27T07:27:49.166Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

It's an actual redirect- if you look quickly, before the redirect, there's a page titled "Your Page Title," with the text "Optional page text here." If you press Control + U quickly enough (at least in Firefox), the source code comes up. It is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

Your Page Title

Optional page text here.

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comment by Psy-Kosh · 2010-12-27T22:12:59.423Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Odd. The redirect was coming from LW? o_O

comment by Jayson_Virissimo · 2010-12-27T03:54:14.189Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I had the same problem with Firefox. It seems to be fine now.

EDIT: The same thing happened again. This is the website it redirects to (for those lucky enough not to have this problem). It seems very unlikely that this is simply a DNS error.

comment by Weeks · 2010-12-30T22:10:32.645Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

It happened to me again today, and doesn't seem to happen again with my cache cleared. I'm using Chrome.

comment by SarahSrinivasan (GuySrinivasan) · 2010-12-27T09:17:19.474Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I get the redirect in Chrome but not IE or Firefox. I usually use Chrome.

ETA: cleared history, didn't work. Cleared cache, problem fixed.

comment by orthonormal · 2010-12-27T06:51:20.424Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Still redirecting for me in Firefox. Safari is fine.

UPDATE: Fixed as soon as I cleared my cache.

comment by JGWeissman · 2010-12-27T03:43:30.208Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I am observing this in Firefox but not Chrome.

comment by [deleted] · 2010-12-27T00:47:39.425Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The front page (and the rest of LW too) is redirecting/going down and back up again at different times.

comment by purpleposeidon · 2010-12-31T09:01:53.479Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

My first thought is that LW got haxXxed, but ping tells me that LW and the other site are both hosted by amazonaws. I suspect the cause is amazon's cloud service making sure I won't use it.

comment by Normal_Anomaly · 2010-12-27T01:03:18.085Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Tried it at this comment's timestamp and it worked.

comment by JoshuaZ · 2010-12-27T00:54:07.683Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I have the same problem with the main page.

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comment by JoshuaZ · 2010-12-27T15:12:10.933Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

And no longer an issue. Anyone know what was happening?

comment by Manfred · 2010-12-27T00:42:38.541Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

No idea. Works for me.