[dccsillag]

(Side note) That's odd, lobste.rs seems to be down for me, and has been like that for a couple of months now -- I literally cannot reach the site.

Is that actually just me??

EDIT: just tried some things, very weird stuff: curl works fine. Firefox works fine. But my usual browser, Brave, does not, and complains that "This site can't be reached (ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE)". Very very very weird, anyone else going through this?

[yurivish]

Why Brave is blocked: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

[DaSHacka]

Looks as though it's not currently in effect, however?

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

What a trite cat-and-mouse game, though at least it's entertaining to watch them try.

[rascul]

Seems like lobste.rs might be blocking Brave.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353473

[porridgeraisin]

They are throwing a bit of a hissy fit over brave. Change the user agent or something and view the site.

[ykonstant]

Reading the facts of the situation, it seems like a warranted "bit of a hissy fit".

[sammy2255]

Disagree. Regardless of what Brave is doing you shouldn’t block via User Agent like this.

[gs17]

Especially not simply making the site not load like that. If you really think a browser is so bad you don't want people using it, at least have it redirect to a message explaining what your grievance is. Unless the browser is DDoSing webpages it loads successfully, making the site look broken is pretty worthless as a response.

EDIT: Although, it looks like they tried to do that sometimes? No idea why they would switch from that approach.

[hitekker]

Eh, pushcx's is right to disagree with past bad decision Brave made, but I think he's conflating a few grievances together. Someone tried to reason with him on that front: https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking...

I sense hidden ideology, but it's his community to own, not mine.

[coffeeling]

It's not just that he disagrees with the things on an object, what happened level. He actively reads malice into every misstep to paint the organization as abusive.

[porridgeraisin]

Yep.

[Permik]

Hello from Finland, I can reach the site all fine. Hope you get your connection issues sorted :)