Will hacker news be creating a fail whale page?
Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?
#22Since I could get in by deleting the cookie, for a while I actually thought I was banned, and was trying to remember if I've posted anything stupid lately.
Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?
#23I don't know what was wrong, but restarting news seems to have fixed it. Whatever it was may have only affected logged in users, which may be why our auto-restarter didn't notice anything was wrong.
It might also not help, but for me, in the last hour at least accessing HN returned an empty response from the server, no errors, just no output at all.
Me too. I cleared the cookie and couldn't log back in, tried to create a test account and got the same empty response in both cases.
Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?
#24I also confirm that it now seems to be fixed after several hours of problems. Good call by RiderOfGiraffes on the cookie. At first I thought it might've been a DNS caching issue with Firefox, but after Wiresharking the connection it was clear that it was asking the right server, but the response was timing out (30s for Firefox). This didn't happen from other browsers or by going to 174.132.225.106 directly. In retros…
Heh, I figured out it was the cookie, but as I had just created a second account I thought it was some sort of auto-ban for daring to create a second pseudonym.