Still getting the “cannot load app” when I try to return to elsewhere from another site. Only on Firefox 58 + Win 10, not iPad.
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Am experiencing same trouble at hospital when signed in to their WiFi network. Off network? Sites load fine.
Phone is Samsung Galaxy s4; all browsers affected (Samsung Internet/Chromium mod, Dolphin browser, Chrome browser); Kindle Fire running Silk browser gives same error.
Also cannot load any Gizmodo sites or ezgif.com, though error message is different (This site can’t be reached, {site name} unexpectedly closed the connection.) Yet Google loads, my Public library site loads… the one thing I think blocked sites have in common is https in addy. It’s likely a network issue, but I’m not going to bug anyone in the hospital about it. This didn’t happen last time Dad was in. Going back in, so I’ll be out of contact for a while.
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Hm. I’ve seen some public wifi hotspots where for all intents and purposes you can only go to the handful of Web sites the provider has OKed (plus maybe a few others which meet the same criteria). For example, for a while at Starbucks and some other sites, connecting to the wifi would try to reach http://www.google.com (NOT https), with the intent of forwarding to the wifi login page. Once Google switched to using https all the time, this just broke and returned all sorts of interesting error messages.
Maybe the wifi provider only allows so much dynamic content on a site?
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Peculiar – my iPad on wifi works fine, but my PC (ethernet) gets the bug.
Best wishes for you and your dad.
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Thank you! Dad finally got admitted to a room on 5th floor, and so far all the “blocked” sites work again (on my phone.) Maybe the Emergency Department WiFi has different protocols or filters baked in, though I never noticed any difference before. ~Insert shrug emoji here.~ As long as Dad’s okay (I’ll explain more tomorrow, I’m tired AF now) I don’t really care about the web. It’s just a troubleshooting distraction so I don’t worry myself to pieces. And so far, so good.
Edited to add: spoke too soon. Kindle browser’s still bitchy, even after reboot and clearing cache (but not cookies, yet.) I’ll try again tomorrow and report back.
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Is spoiler tag not spoiling for others?
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I think it needs the spoiler closing tag on a separate line if it’s a multiline spoiler with blank lines.
This works even though it’s multiline and the /spoiler
is in line with text, (because there are no blank lines?)
[spoiler]
This doesn’t work because there’s an empty line involved:
Nope, doesn’t work.[/spoiler]
This does work even with an empty line involved:
Yeah, that works.
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that did it. TIL
Odd the automatic spoiler gadget did it that way.
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I’m I missing something, or did mute never make it to the retro mobile skin? Really like retro, really miss mute.
I know you cats are busy and put a lot into this, so if it’s a site thing I can surely wait, but if it’s PEBCAK somebody give me a clue, right?
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Mute made it. May need tweaking, imsge cache does funky things to it.
Edit: will hax fix up in 45min
Edit2:
Fix up.
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Cool. Entering a thread it’s there, if I scroll down a thread it disappears, reloading the page brings it back. In some threads a previously muted personae is all ready muted, others a refresh takes care of it.
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Hm, yeah, noticing that now. Maybe I should have it fire when window is ready rather than the existing method? I’ll test for a solution.
EDIT
I’d completely forgotten to include the CSS part of the code in the Retro theme. Fixed.
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Yay! Didn’t want to be a pest but it’d been long enough I thought I’d ask. Thank you!
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Final commentary on my Kindle issue: apparently pressing and holding the power button for 40 seconds clears memory, and doing that eliminated the issue of certain sites (including this one 
) refusing to load on its Silk browser. I never did figure out what caused the problem in the first place. But since my Dad’s Kindle was able to see the Cafe and mine couldn’t, it had to be some sort of device-specific gremlin. ~shrug~
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@CleverEmi, @Nightflyer, and I have mentioned getting this message when navigating back to this site after going somewhere else:
It appears to be a bug associated with the Firefox PrivacyBadger plugin. I’ve tested it with and without the plugin, and sure enough, that’s where the problem is.
Supposedly PrivacyBadger’s been notified, but who knows whether it will get fixed. And it doesn’t explain why neither TOS or Discourse have the problem. Maybe it’s due to my not being signed in at either place?
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I don’t use Privacy Badger, though perhaps there’s a similar code in the adblocker I use on my phone. (My Kindle doesn’t have one yet, since I don’t do a lot of websurfing on it.) I suspect it might have been some hiccup in the WiFi network I was using at the time, combined with caching issues, since it went away after a while (and after caches were cleared on both phone and Kindle.) I wish I could contribute more to the troubleshooting than that, but that’s all I’ve got.
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I’ve had it while signed in at TOS. And I use privacy badger.
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I just signed back in at TOS, but didn’t get the message. I is confuse.
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