I have noticed this a few times. I know cloudflare is hosting this site somehow but you usually don't see it. However, if I refresh an LQ page after a long wait (a couple of hours, say), my browser hangs on a cloudflare address.

It's getting worse. I've been trying repeatedly to answer a question by a newbie and cloudflare won't let me! My answer doesn't contain any code, just plain text.

I wonder if it will let me even post this.

No problem here Hazel. Windstream is my Internet Service Provider.

I still can't give this poor user his answer! And so far no one else has done so either. He'll just have to do without. I think that's rather sad and defeats the purpose of the site.

I just tried doing it using links, which doesn't use javascript. I thought that might be a way to get around clownflare's idiocy. No luck! The question incidently is about LFS; this user believes that he can't get into chroot and I believe he actually is in chroot and suggested a couple of more reliable ways to test it.

I wonder if this has something to do with the ip address assigned to me today. Could it be on some kind of blacklist? It's 78.32.146.199 if that says anything to anyone.

Adblocker?

Cookies timeout/disallowed?


Jan, darkshooter!

I recently installed ublock. Could that be it, do you think? Anyone else had problems there?

PS: I tried again this morning and got the same result. This time round, I actually got some capchas to do (I hate those!) but then it again blanked out. Yet I can post to this thread and some in the general forum. I just can't post to that one. Fortunately business kid answered it so the guy hasn't been completely ignored but I would still like to add my .

PPS: I hope this problem doesn't extend to other technical threads. I come here to help people, to pay forward for all the times I was helped. If I'm not allowed to do that, I might as well stop coming.

I see you've posted again... what was the solution?

The solution was not to give that particular questioner the answer I wanted to give. They got one from business_kid, but what I wanted to say (and business_kid didn't say) was that I believed the OP was indeed chrooted into LFS and hadn't tested for it correctly. For example, he'd used uname to identify his kernel but had imho misinterpreted the result. I suggested one or two tests he could do. But I wasn't allowed to post so he is none the wiser.

That saddens me. Just not posting is a solution of sorts but not one that does this site any credit.

Thanks, Hazel, but I was referring to your troubles with LQ. Like this:

What's that? Did you get redirected to captchas?


An LQ admin should be able to see what happens to your ip during logins/postings. Wouldn't it be a good idea to take contact?

Initially yes. But when I had done them, I just got a blank white page rather than being redirected to the post. Frankly I haven't got the energy to chase this up any further.