Wiki glitch?

Summary:

Site not displaying right, unable to log in?

Wiki glitch?

Zyn 15 Jan 2015 16:55

I recently got the following PM:

I've been having a problem with the SCP wikidot site for the past few days. It looks like it's mainly text when I look at it on Firefox, but when I try the wiki.net page it looks fine, however I cannot seem to log in on that site. On the other hand, the SCP wikidot site looks fine on Safari.

Any thoughts on how to fix it?

Anyone know what might be going on? All I thought of was maybe the add-ons and adblockers potentially messing with javascript, since the issue isn't present on Safari, but could there be anything else?

Re: Wiki glitch?

Drewbear 15 Jan 2015 18:17

The wikidot login thing is a known issue that I, too, have been plagued by. Something about the setting for the wikidot cookie in Firefox sometimes just borks so that it'll log you in on the wikidot.com page, but not register you as logged in on the SCP wiki. Literally the only way I've found to fix it is to completely reinstall Firefox. It works fine in other browsers, though.

As for the text thing, I'm not seeing any problems at work on I.E.

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Re: Wiki glitch?

thedeadlymoose 15 Jan 2015 18:32

This glitch is a known issue with mobile browsers (known from our end, that is).

You can log onto http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ as normal. However, you cannot log onto http://scp-wiki.net/ . You can try, but it won't stick.

This is true for all mobile browsers we've tested so far, at least on Android (Chrome, Dolphin, I believe Firefox though I didn't check that one personally).

We have an alert on the Join page because of how commonly this has prevented people from applying.

I don't know anything about it being Firefox specific or happening on desktops, though. Drew, can you clarify?

As for "it looks like it's mainly text", I've seen this occur repeatedly when a connection is poor and the browser won't load the template. Otherwise, no ideas.

Re: Wiki glitch?

Drewbear 15 Jan 2015 18:41

Desktop Firefox is where it had glitched for me.

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Re: Wiki glitch?

Crayne 15 Jan 2015 19:27

I just signed in on www.scp-wiki.net using Firefox mobile (Android). Can't say I've ever had problems with this.

Re: Wiki glitch?

Zyn 05 Feb 2015 02:45

Got a PM about this again:

I'm still having the same problem with the wikidot.com site on firefox. I've uploaded an image of what it looks like (I signed out of my account to take the image since it's on a public image sharing site now).

It works fine on Safari but I prefer using firefox. If there are any further thoughts on how to fix it I'd greatly appreciate any information.

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Are there any updates regarding a potential fix?

Re: Wiki glitch?

Riemann 05 Feb 2015 03:46

I've had that once or twice on mobile when the network quits on me mid-loading. No web coding expert, but I think the browser fails to receive/load all of the page data, leaving you with pretty barebones text.

Re: Wiki glitch?

TroyL 05 Feb 2015 03:26

I've had this problem in the past. Usually, refreshing the page fixes it. I've only seen it happen twice in a row once, and then, it worked fine on the third.

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Re: Wiki glitch?

Zyn 05 Feb 2015 07:40

Yeah, I've had the site load incompletely a few times over the past few months or so. The person who PMed me said that it'd been a recurring issue since the first time they mentioned it (i.e. Jan 15, the first post of this thread)

Re: Wiki glitch?

thedeadlymoose 05 Feb 2015 10:49

Yeah, it happens to me when the page doesn't fully load (which is fairly often because my internet is a shit).

This is hardly limited to our site, though. I get similar results from sites from Fallen London to the Huffington Post (lol). I don't think it's a wikidot issue. Just an Internet Thing. (Not technical, though, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)

Re: Wiki glitch?

Zyn 15 Feb 2015 22:02

Got a PM, with a noted fix:

Just letting you know I managed to fix it. I was playing with my add ons on firefox and on Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) I allowed the tracker www.scp-wiki.net to track me and everything is back to normal.