For me, http://teddit.net remained accessible. I had forgotten the address, but dug it out via HN because of the current issue. Great UI; see the ~300 comments on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox
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#143Anyone else have the immediate reaction/thought "oh God, IT has finally caught on and blocked reddit because of me"?
I panicked for a few minutes waiting for IT to knock on my office door...
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#144I can't help but have a sinking feeling that this as a result of the wider trend of using only Chromium-based browsers. If they were the ones affected by this issue, I feel like it would get solved almost immediately.
I use chrome and Reddit is incredibly buggy quite often. Normally old.reddit.com works, but it is shocking how badly made such a big site is.
It’s so bad half the time I think they have to be trolling their own users.
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#145Looks like FireFox is actually blocking Reddit rather than the other way around. Edit: Firefox blocked the site from loading as it would have been unsafe to attempt due to the encoding problem. I wasn't implying anything else and even posted the browser's own error message. Relax. Check your console: The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some…
It's just a warning firefox is logging because the "Blocked" response is just `text/plain` and doesn't have a header specifying the character encoding.
Yes, the browser wasn't sure if its render engine would get stuck, but there was a big chance it would only end up dumping a bunch of garbled text on screen anyway (of a different sort than usual :) ). Therefore it decided to simply not load the file at all.
In other words, Firefox literally blocked the website from loading and that's precisely what I said.
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#146I love Reddit, but it has the worst popularity to UX ratio I've ever seen. They try very hard at making their web UI annoying so you switch to their mobile app.
old.reddit.com until they finally kill it off, then I'll just stop going.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox
#147Looks like FireFox is actually blocking Reddit rather than the other way around. Edit: Firefox blocked the site from loading as it would have been unsafe to attempt due to the encoding problem. I wasn't implying anything else and even posted the browser's own error message. Relax. Check your console: The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some…
No, that just means that there is no encoding sent in the header (or HTML http-equiv tag). Anyway, it's back up for me.
Yes no encoding so unsafe to render, therefore Firefox blocked it. Wasn't implying anything else.
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We can only hope. In all seriousness, it feels like it was a long time coming. There were indications that web is moving towards one approved browser. It is just our luck that one browser is Chrome.
Honestly, the number of complex web-applications that are degrading slowly in firefox is only getting longer. At my office: the HR benefits system is completely broken in FF, some of our training modules in the training system fail, Azure DevOps needs me to close the browser completely and re-open to clear some kind of JS or shadow state or something... It's bad and getting worse and I don't know how much longer I ca…
This is because FF is enabling better privacy controls, and so many sites these days are designed to run in pants-down mode.
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Indeed. It sucks so much I built my own :)
Are you the apollo guy?
That would be iamthatis. Both on Reddit and on here apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamthatis
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just a warning firefox is logging because the "Blocked" response is just `text/plain` and doesn't have a header specifying the character encoding.
Yes, the browser wasn't sure if its render engine would get stuck, but there was a big chance it would only end up dumping a bunch of garbled text on screen anyway (of a different sort than usual :) ). Therefore it decided to simply not load the file at all. In other words, Firefox literally blocked the website from loading and that's precisely what I said.
No, Firefox did not block anything.
Firefox contacted the server, and the server sent back a 7–byte text/plain response containing “Blocked”. Since no encoding was specified, Firefox guesses and displays “Blocked” on the screen. Hopefully it was in an encoding you could read, but in case it shows up as mojibake or something Firefox also put a warning in the dev console. The warning isn’t for end users, it is for the developer of the site who is wondering why their site shows up as mojibake.