I'm very happy to remove the code from Lobsters for geoblocking the UK, and my thanks to everyone who contributed to making sense of it. I wrote up everything we learned about it and why the risk seems low enough now, hopefully it's useful to other communities: https://lobste.rs/c/xevn8a - ThreadSky

push.cx • 17 days ago

I'm very happy to remove the code from Lobsters for geoblocking the UK, and my thanks to everyone who contributed to making sense of it. I wrote up everything we learned about it and why the risk seems low enough now, hopefully it's useful to other communities: https://lobste.rs/c/xevn8a

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andymci.bsky.social•15 days ago

Thank you for putting this together! Sharing with my fellow CMs.

tiniuclx.bsky.social•16 days ago

Thanks for going through all this trouble to make sure Lobsters can remain live in the UK. I really appreciate it, I love this community.

push.cx•16 days ago

Thanks! I'm really glad to have the help and built up the understanding to evaluate the risk. Now we just have to be right that it's low. :)

push.cx•15 days ago

If you have follow-up questions from my long OSA post or about the site generally, Lobsters office hours will stream in 3 hours. Open door, so drop in to ask questions or just watch me work on the site. A lot of the OSA work, including starting this post, is in the archive! https://push.cx/stream

push.cx•15 days ago

Also there's more bugs from recent comment editing/layout fixes. Comments are core functionality, it's unacceptable that the js breaks on every edit. I need to build more infrastructure on the 2010-style selectors -> ajax to replace dom nodes, but that coupling is brittle bc in different contexts.

push.cx•15 days ago

I'm warming up the Lobsters office hours stream now and will start in a minute: https://twitch.tv/stream

push.cx•17 days ago

...I get to close so many tabs now. I am light as a feather.

geesawra.industries•17 days ago

Uhm, the page looks completely white on safari mobile, something broke?

opliko.dev•17 days ago

Same for me on mobile FF and Chrome, only https://lobste.rs/s/ "works" (returns 404 with normal UI) but every other page from there is broken

opliko.dev•17 days ago

Huh, moderation log, tags and search also load, but nothing with actual posts

push.cx•17 days ago

One last gift from the OSA. Some geoblock code in the caching logic broke, and the cache is disabled for users, and in dev/test envs.

push.cx•17 days ago

One last gift from the OSA. Some geoblock code in the caching logic broke, and the cache is disabled for users, and in dev/test envs.

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