Going forward, you may see the occasional error page on DU -- but don't worry

[EarlG]

This discussion thread was locked by EarlG (a host of the Announcements group).

As part of our effort to track down the bug which was causing Star Members to see ads last week (which we believe we have now fixed!) we made some configuration changes to DU behind the scenes.

We have now changed our configuration back to the way it was. It is our expectation that from your perspective, nothing will happen -- however, there is a possibility that you may see some occasional error pages, specifically "520" errors or other errors referencing Cloudflare.

Please do not be alarmed -- if you do see such an error, a simple page reload should make it go away, and we expect that over time most of these errors will clear up.

We will be monitoring the situation, so there is no need to report these errors to an Admin UNLESS they are persistent and are interfering with your ability to browse DU -- in which case, please let us know.

Thanks for reading!

-- EarlG

[catbyte]

1. Thanks for the heads up!

[riversedge]

2. thanks

[marble falls]

3. You never let us down yet!

[UpInArms]

4. Thank you for all that you do

[House of Roberts]

5. Don't worry if the sleeve seems a bit long,

it will ride up with wear!

[PatSeg]

6. Thanks!

[CaptainTruth]

7. FYI I got "Pop-up blocked" again today, 1-2 hours ago.

Android phone, Chrome browser with ad blocker, it happened exactly like it did a few weeks ago, I clicked on a tweet in a DU post, which took me to the Twitter app, then when I came back to the DU post in Chrome there was a dialog box saying "Pop-up blocked," which is what the ad blocker does when it blocks a pop-up ad.

I just dismissed the notification & continued, to me it's no big deal & it seems like it only happens once or twice & then goes away so I haven't been concerned about it.

[KG]

8. that's very reassuring .

[niyad]

9. Thank you for this. Will keep freak outs to a minimum!

[FSogol]

10. If anyone reads my posts, you'll see lots of errors.

Thanks for reading!

[lpbk2713]

11. Understood. Thanks.

FWIW ... I haven't noticed any problems of any significance.

[malaise]

12. Thanks for the heads up

[Wild blueberry]

13. Thank you and crew for all your great work

Thank you!

[2naSalit]

14. Thank you for keeping DU alive!

And well!

[PCIntern]

15. Thank you!

[mountain grammy]

16. of everything I have to worry about

DU is way down on the list thanks to the work you do..The only thing I fear is the blackout that occurred in November of 2016. Otherwise, no worries with DU. The administrators are great!

[UTUSN]

17. Spell Check just did jumbled text words with a "c" in front of many words. *Did* correct the

one misspelled word, though.

[Kali]

18. I got some kind of cloudfare error on another website the other day

it was after I did something here to fix something (cleared cache or ??? I just don't remember) and I had login issues with a bunch of other sites as well. trying to solve the cloudfare 1020, issue I had to reset some auto clearing of cookies in firefox security that got changed by itself? and that fixed the constant log in issues with all my "regular" sites that are supposed to stay logged in.

[MontanaMama]

19. Thanks for lett us know and for

all you do to keep us alive and kicking.

[kooth]

20. Thanks

Good luck, y'all!

[SWBTATTReg]

21. Right on top of the situation as usual and you all and this site make me extremely proud to be a ...

tiny part of this whole website. Thanks for the heads up.

[colsohlibgal]

22. Thanks For The Update

This site runs as smoothly as I’ve seen and is a Godsend for we progressives!

[calimary]

23. Got it. Thanks, EarlG.

[democrank]

24. Thank you

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. You've fixed a minor bug I was seeing: It said "Line" for each line of replies, instead of a line.

[question everything]

26. Never seen an error only a blank avatar now

Never had one and it used to be the generic gray image of a person. Now there is a squiggle, or something.

[question everything]

27. OK, back to the grey avatar

[Skittles]

28. thanks for keeping us updated!

as someone who works in IT it is always nice to be warned about known "errors"

[seta1950]

29. Thank you

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. I'm NEVER worried about the nuts and bolts of DU.

Nor of its ethos. Thank you for the heads-up, though.

[orangecrush]

32. Thanks!

Appreciate the heads up!

[question everything]

33. Since this fixing, there is incompatibility between DU softeware and Firefox browser - for the Mac

Since that I cannot see my avatar when in Firefox, but not in Safari.

This is what I see