Random button broken

[Darth_Dadda]

<a href="//c.xkcd.com/random/comic/">Random</a>

Cannot be reached... refused to connect.

Why god why!?

workaround: custom Chrome add on that visits XKCD, navigates back one comic, saves the semantic url ending as t, then generates a url: https://xkcd.com/N∩[0,t]/

haha... no one needs your broken random button.

[Organic Torus]

It's been broken since the 11th I think. It sucks because I like to go to dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic instead of strait to xkcd.com so I get to enjoy a random old comic before I see the latest one. For a while I thought the whole xkcd site was down.

[spirail]

+1. Joined forum just to notify bug... should have known others would beat me to it.

[Darth_Dadda]

d have known others would beat me to it.

You're in good company! it's the only reason I joined the forum!

I like to go to dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic instead of strait to xkcd.com so I get to enjoy a random old comic before I see the latest one.

I'm exactly the opposite! I read the new one first then spend hours and hours hitting random...

[balthasar_s]

The c.xkcd.com server not working breaks not only the "Random" button but also other things.
One of them is https://xkcd.com/1190/.
On that page time.png redirects to https://c.xkcd.com/redirect/comic/time.

[bugmento]

another thing that is now broken is the JSONp api, at c.xkcd.com/api-0/jsonp/comic/

[four random words here]

I was going to create an account to report this issue, but then I saw this thread.

Wait...

In all seriousness, I can confirm this issue is present in chrome 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit), and IE 11.0.9600.19100

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fjea2vfwyx7qafw/xkcd%20random%20broken.PNG?dl=0

[testrider]

Given the dominance of the random button this has a pretty big impact on the users experience.
Is there any way this can be prioritized?

I can't imagine it is hard to restore the previous functionality, but otherwise a more simple plug may be suitable to fill this hole.

[Organic Torus]

It's broken again for me. This time going straight to dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic still works but when I click the random button the connection just times out. What's going on?

[bugmento]

for me, HTTP works, but HTTPS doesn't. it seems to hang after 'we' send ClientHello

Code: Select all

% curl -vvv https://c.xkcd.com   
* Rebuilt URL to: https://c.xkcd.com/
*   Trying 107.6.98.34...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to c.xkcd.com (107.6.98.34) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):



[mrob27]

https://xkcd.com/1190 is still broken. What's going on? Does anyone actually fix broken things anymore?

[gmalivuk]

None of the active forum moderators have any control outside of the forums themselves.

There are many other ways to watch 1190 in its entirety, so that particular comic no longer working 5.5 years later is probably not high on anyone's priorities in any case.

[Organic Torus]

The c.xkcd.com server not working breaks not only the "Random" button but also other things.
One of them is https://xkcd.com/1190/.
On that page time.png redirects to https://c.xkcd.com/redirect/comic/time.

So c.xkcd.com and the random button function go down together? Granted I know little about coding but those seem like strange things to be so closely related.

Also the random button has been "breaking" every few days since mid-September as far as I can tell. Clearly it's an ongoing problem. I wonder what's behind it.