Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4401-4405 (Nov 23th to Nov 27th, 2020)
SpanielBear:
Posting for the sake of site management and how it appears on browsers, with no judgement intended-
Using the standard iPhone safari browser, MrNumbers’ avatar loads fine. N. N. Marf’s does not.
Not sure what that means, but for what it’s worth that’s my experience. The like buttons were slow to load for me as well, and I get occasional failures to open this site due to I guess domain issues? Not my area I’m afraid.
pwhodges:
Administrator Comment The URLs at issue end with the ".onion" TLD. These URLs are intended for use within the Tor security network and are forbidden for use on the Internet by RFC 7686. Their use here will cause problems for anyone not using a Tor client, and can only be considered unfriendly to the community.
https://www.theregister.com/2015/10/28/onion_kept_off_public_internet/
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Nov 2020, 09:50 ---The URLs at issue end with the ".onion" TLD. These URLs are intended for use within the Tor security network and are forbidden for use on the Internet by RFC 7686. Their use here will cause problems for anyone not using a Tor client, and can only be considered unfriendly to the community.
https://www.theregister.com/2015/10/28/onion_kept_off_public_internet/
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Perhaps you misunderstood that request for comments. From the text thereof, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force:
--- Quote --- 6. DNS Server Operators: Operators MUST NOT configure an
authoritative DNS server to answer queries for .onion. If they
do so, client software is likely to ignore any results (see
above).
7. DNS Registries/Registrars: Registrars MUST NOT register .onion
names; all such requests MUST be denied.
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Those are the only things forbidden according to that document. Presumably to avoid ambiguities. The ``onion'' top-level domain name is used to refer to TOR `onion services.' (Tangentially, (6) is poorly phrased: client software might ignore such results.) Problems caused by pointing to an onion service directly, should be no worse than problems caused by a pointer by name that doesn't resolve.
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 24 Nov 2020, 09:23 ---Switching to Firefox will get me MrNumbers's avatar just fine, as does enabling insecure content on this site. N.N. Marf's is still broken either way.
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I'd switched it from the (obfuscated/shortened by TinyURL) `Tor2Web' gateway pointer to the resource, to the direct one. This might reduce delays caused by a client waiting for that resource to load.
As has been said elsewhere, I had tried using the `Tor2Web' gateway, so that embedded resources might be read by more users. For some reason, that had failed (I suspect CloudFlare, or, less likely, these forums' forum software), but it had seemed to work with the obfuscated locator. Now it seems that that had caused some problems for some users.
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 24 Nov 2020, 08:50 ---Of all the hills to die on, why this one?
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Your picture still fails to load, but it's failing to load a lot faster now.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 24 Nov 2020, 06:47 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Nov 2020, 23:23 ---
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 23 Nov 2020, 17:52 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 23 Nov 2020, 13:16 ---It's N.N. Marf's avatar fouling up the works. The "Like" button won't load until everything else loads, and his avatar is on some bizarre onion domain that won't load and will eventually time out.
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I'm not sure how to construe that remark about my user-photo. I'm also not sure how some putative stylistic unconventionality of a third party resource---my net-site---should affect the well functioning of these forums.
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Fine, I'll be more specific: Whatever site or file storage service you use is technically incompatible with this site. It is nothing about style and everything about incompatible coding and settings. Your link is irreversibly broken and is hurting other users of the forums. The only solution is to stop using your current location and find one that actually works with the forums. Trying to be cute or obtusely defensive about it just makes you come across in a bad light.
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Except it's not irreversibly broken. It loads fine, for me, and at least one other person. (Just so you know, what you're saying about be finding a different host, is like telling someone in a wheelchair, to find different crutches. Yeah, the stairs are crumbling from wheels hitting them day in and day out, because what's in the building, is more valuable to the person in the wheelchair, than cost of being jostled by getting someone to drag the wheelchair up each step. The proper solution should be plan renovations that would make the building more accessible, maybe installing a ramp meanwhile---maybe don't blame the person in the wheelchair.) There's nothing obtuse about requesting elucidation about an opaque statement that could be construed as blaming, without further elucidation, one person for another's difficulty. Thank you cybersmurf, for at least something maybe helpful.
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Moderator Comment I strongly advise you don't ever use this comparison to a wheelchair user ever again.
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