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Gawker sites have become barely usable for me - if I click one of their hashbang URLs it will sometimes helpfully redirect me to uk.sitename.com, losing the has

Gawker sites have become barely usable for me - if I click one of their hashbang URLs it will sometimes helpfully redirect me to uk.sitename.com, losing the hashbang part and so leaving me at the front page and not the article I'm trying to read. It's really annoying and entirely unnecessary. A blog is not a web app and doesn't need to be built like one.

arctangent 16y ago
Their site is completely unusable for me too. I'm amazed that they haven't fixed this, and amazed that it made it through testing without being spotted.
- megablast 16y ago
  I go to m.gizmodo.com, which makes it partially useful, and the stories are readable if clicked from there. Of course, when you try another gizmodo link it fails. What a disaster, but will they have the balls to go back?
  - ilikepi 16y ago
    Hmm...yes, m.gizmodo.com seems to work, provided you manually remove the '#!' and leave the rest of the URL alone. In theory if one had a web server running locally, one could add gizmodo.com to /etc/hosts and map it to loopback, then configure said web server to catch gizmodo.com and rewrite the URL to redirect to m.gizmodo.com instead... Like this perhaps, using Apache's mod_rewrite: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} kotaku\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_=(.*) RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://m.kotaku.com/%1 [L,R=permanant] edit: hmm, might need this set after the one above, for URLs without _escaped_fragment_: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} kotaku\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://m.kotaku.com/$1 [L,R=permanant]
    - john-n 16y ago
      Easier solution, if you use chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlknelhingldnlmpgnmkkmpoibgehijo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlknelhingldnlmpgn... Im sure FF versions exist, and it uses ca.site, so it has the old design.

arctangent 16y ago

Their site is completely unusable for me too. I'm amazed that they haven't fixed this, and amazed that it made it through testing without being spotted.

megablast 16y ago
I go to m.gizmodo.com, which makes it partially useful, and the stories are readable if clicked from there. Of course, when you try another gizmodo link it fails. What a disaster, but will they have the balls to go back?
- ilikepi 16y ago
  Hmm...yes, m.gizmodo.com seems to work, provided you manually remove the '#!' and leave the rest of the URL alone. In theory if one had a web server running locally, one could add gizmodo.com to /etc/hosts and map it to loopback, then configure said web server to catch gizmodo.com and rewrite the URL to redirect to m.gizmodo.com instead... Like this perhaps, using Apache's mod_rewrite: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} kotaku\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_=(.*) RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://m.kotaku.com/%1 [L,R=permanant] edit: hmm, might need this set after the one above, for URLs without _escaped_fragment_: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} kotaku\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://m.kotaku.com/$1 [L,R=permanant]
  - john-n 16y ago
    Easier solution, if you use chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlknelhingldnlmpgnmkkmpoibgehijo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlknelhingldnlmpgn... Im sure FF versions exist, and it uses ca.site, so it has the old design.