I am so very sorry that I once again come here with an issue that someone else also reported having on the old Reddit community, haha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/perchance/comments/16g9sml/perchance_literally_just_refuses_to_open_now/

I have a very similar issue, and they might be related.

Perchance’s homepage is loading for me, and when I go directly to my generators’ edit page (#edit) this loads as well, but the generator doesn’t. None of my generators do. The only thing that loads when trying to view a generator is the favicon. xD

The iframe embedded versions of the generators on their respective blogs aren’t loading either.

It’s not my internet connection. I’ve rebooted my router and my repeater. I’ve tried multiple browsers, private and logged mode, with and without a VPN, cleared my cache… basically the whole “have you tried switching it off and back on again” routine.

  • Diana47OPEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    I tried again now and got this dialogue:

    There was some sort of bug parsing the imports of this generator. Please report this at https://lemmy.world/c/perchance and mention this error code: 2

    Will clear the cache now and try again. :D

    Edit: Clearing the cache did fix the problem in Opera, but not in Chrome or Firefox. Haven’t tried Edge yet because I’m honestly happy with it working in my main browser (but I’m aware that it’s not ideal lol).

    No need to apologise, thank you for dedicating your time to this! I’ll point the user who posted about this on Reddit to this thread here to see if it’s working for them now. :)

    • perchanceMEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      Hmm so is it giving that “error code 2” message for Chrome and Firefox, or just showing the perpetual loading spinner thing in the middle of the page? And in chrome if you mash refresh 5 times in a row fast, then that doesn’t change anything?

      • Diana47OPEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Yes, it’s giving that error code 2 message in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge (which I now also tried). When I click on OK, the perpetual spinner returns in all three browsers. Mashing refresh in Chrome didn’t change anything.

        • perchanceMEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          Very strange. Seems like Chrome/Firefox/Edge are holding onto the cached version for some reason. And it’s the same as before, right? I.e. completely white except the spinner? Or can you see the perchance header bar now, and also the perpetual spinner?

          Also, if you add ?1234 to the end of the URL, does it work in Chrome? Like this:

          https://perchance.org/hitman?1234

          If that doesn’t work, another thing to try which would help me understand this is to press Ctrl+Shift+J and then go to the “Network” tab and check the “Disable cache” checkbox (near the top, just below the Network/Console/Etc. tab buttons) and then refresh the page while the network tab is still open.

          • Diana47OPEnglish
            2·
            3 years ago

            It’s a bit different now than it was before, I made a new screen recording so you can watch it all unfold.

            Adding the qualifier didn’t change anything, same result as in the screen recording.

            I made another screen recording of the disabling cache and refreshing procedure.

            Hope this helps a bit at least? Happy to try out more things, just let me know what you need me to do.

            I did create a new user profile on Chrome, and that one loads the generator without any issues, just as with the guest profile, so that was kind of what I expected to happen. Just wanted to mention that in case it does make a difference.