Random button broken
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Random button broken
<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.
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.
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Re: xkcd random button not working
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.
Re: Random button broken
+1. Joined forum just to notify bug... should have known others would beat me to it.
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Re: Random button broken
spirail wrote:d have known others would beat me to it.
You're in good company! it's the only reason I joined the forum!
Organic Torus wrote: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...
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Re: Random button broken
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.
One of them is https://xkcd.com/1190/.
On that page time.png redirects to https://c.xkcd.com/redirect/comic/time.
BSTA
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Re: Random button broken
another thing that is now broken is the JSONp api, at c.xkcd.com/api-0/jsonp/comic/
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Re: Random button broken
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
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
Re: Random button broken
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.
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.
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Re: Random button broken
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? 

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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):
Re: Random button broken
https://xkcd.com/1190 is still broken. What's going on? Does anyone actually fix broken things anymore?
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Re: Random button broken
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.
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.
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Re: Random button broken
balthasar_s wrote: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.
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Re: Random button broken
Seems like it's back online!!
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