Kind of ironic since the one site turning off JavaScript gets promoted to the hilt is TOP.
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I too am surprised that this site works with JavaScript turned off, as Discourse is primarily a client-side application. Most web applications are these days, really.
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A detailed and excellently-written description of what happened and what was done about it:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/
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A more comprehensive post-mortem, with links to a couple reports having even more detail.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/add-ons-outage-post-mortem-result/
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