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Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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That's what I guessed, but the http3 fix has no effect Changing user-agent doesn't do anything either

Spoofing the user-agent to look like Chrome made reddit work for me when using Firefox.

Weird - perhaps the extension I was using didn't actually work

Seems like they've fixed whatever it was now anyhow

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

#162

Seems fixed? I just checked with FF. Also from a Reddit Admin: > We believe we've tracked down the issue that was impacting some of your bots. There may be some lingering 403 issues as we hash it all out over the next day or so > https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/r55zax/comment/h...

The post you're referencing is two months old.

My bad, you're right. I mistook "2m" as 2 minutes ago, not two months.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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post #93

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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…

On the other hand, I just got on-boarded to a doctor's office system that included a warning (delivered with the on-boarding link by SMS) that the website would "only work on a PC with Firefox or Safari".

I've run into a few older sites designed around IE quirks that have stopped working under MS Edge but run great in FF, actually. Sql Server 2012 Reports websites for example. Which makes sense - FF was designed to imitate some IE idiosyncracies that Chrome didn't care about, and Edge/Edgium uses Chrome renderer now.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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Reddit announced the cause of the outage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/s4095g/resolved_block...

> PetGorignac, Admin, 2 hr. ago

> Hi folks,

> I was the incident commander for this one and came by to drop a bit of information about what happened here.

> We were attempting to mitigate some problematic traffic that had been causing a low amount of site errors over the past few hours. In doing so, we identified some traffic characteristics that we believed correlated with the error rate and attempted to block it. It turns out this blocked Firefox traffic, which we noticed relatively quickly, leading us to revert the change.

> Apologies for the disruption!

> (Also kudos to the commentor who had a great RCA, but sadly the comment got deleted before I could respond)

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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post #137

I 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.

Indeed. It sucks so much I built my own :)

Could you share a link?

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

#166

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Spoofing the user-agent to look like Chrome made reddit work for me when using Firefox.

Weird - perhaps the extension I was using didn't actually work Seems like they've fixed whatever it was now anyhow

It seems the User-Agent workaround solved it for some people, but not for others. Definitely weird.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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post #147

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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.

If you saw the word "Blocked", then it did render it.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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post #137

I 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.

Indeed. It sucks so much I built my own :)

You're good until they shut down their API I guess...

Re: Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox

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post #125

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I was seeing problems in Chrome a couple hours ago. In the fancy editor it was taking seconds to echo, and the cursor would jump to the start of the text, and placeholder text was not being replaced with typed text. The older editor where you have to manually enter markdown worked fine. I assumed they had done something that botched the JavaScript of the site. Maybe some update went badly today, and it manifests diff…

> Switching to the old manual markdown mode was fine. Good to know. This new editor doesn't work at all for me in Firefox, just a frustrating chaos of random bugs.

Concur - pasting copied text is a random nightmare. The markdown editor works fine but the 'help' menu has disappeared. So it goes.
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