sliqua-jcooter wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
This "Website Offline, No Cached Version Available" started again with me at about 17:30 GMT on Saturday and I tried refreshing/loading other threads at various times up until 21:00, when I went and found something else to do.
About 30 minutes ago, checking that I still got the errors for any open page refresh or attempting to load another thread - even an old one which I thought might have been cached by now - I restarted the browser.
Oh look - the Cloudflare problem had apparently stopped ages ago, going by various thread update times.
Unimpressed.
Believe me I'm looking at this. We're all paying very close attention to this thread, and trying to find out what's going on.
Excellent, and thank you - that's very good to know.
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I don't think Cloudflare will go away any time soon, it's keeping quite a lot of load off the server, and alleviating a huge host of issues on our end. Having said that, the stuff going on here is equally unacceptable - so we're looking at the issue trying to figure out what exactly is going on.
In principle it sounds like a great idea and I can see how everyone should win as a result of it - but yes, there is definitely something nasty going on at the moment.
What puzzles me is that I've
never been able to fetch a cached version of anything when the error appears. I've tried accessing very current threads, week-old threads and some dinosaurs - all have no no cached version available.
The browser restart "fix" is I think a recent development. Earlier "No Cached Version" errors would eventually return a valid page after a few page refreshes and things then carried on working normally.
I know the version of Firefox I'm running (3.6.17) isn't exactly the shiniest version available but apart from the odd CSS-related silliness on a very few pages, it's been problem-free - so I'm inclined to think this latest development is more Cloudflare than Mozilla.
One day I might actually complete migrating to a new installation on another drive which
does use current versions, but, umm...
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