zlacker

Next time you can avoid that fate by opening HN in a private browsing (or whatever your browser calls its equivalent) window. This outage, like the vast majority of HN outages, only affected logged in requests.

I suppose you could also just clear your HN cookies in regular browsing window, but then when they fix it you'd have to log in again.

>>tzs+(OP)
Is it my imagination or did they used to automatically serve you a logged out page when it was down?

>>tzs+(OP)
Huh. Dunno why, but when it failed on Firefox I tried Chrome, and it worked. I wrote it off as a Mozilla issue, but this would better explain that I think

>>tzs+(OP)
I couldn't access it in private or regular.