Anyone else having problems posting to fluther?

Yes, this has been going on for about 5 days now and there are numerous questions about why Fluther is not Fluthering. It gets better, it reverts. The team is on task but the core issues are not yet resolved.

Server problems. We’re aware and working on it.

http://i.imgur.com/kMU4jIo.png

Note the X’s. Scripts aren’t loading. Like this one.

http://dks1gowyscdyo.cloudfront.net/templates/fluther/askwizard/ask.v0b2e3.js

Edit :: This appears to be a function of how you modified robots.txt and the CDN (Cloudfront) not being cool with it.

If I understand the architecture here correctly there is a load balancer that feeds to two servers running apache. I would just block the crawlers in /etc/hosts on the load balancer and cross your fingers. At least that is what I would do until you can come up with a solution that isn’t a hack.

Oh, and here is the console output from the mobile site.

http://i.imgur.com/ljwelYK.png

http://dks1gowyscdyo.cloudfront.net/templates/iphone/v2/skeleton.v0b2e3.js

That does load. So maybe my cloudflare thinking was incorrect.

edit :: And I will explain my reasoning for thinking you should block the crawlers at a lower level in etc/hosts. When a request is made and it hits robots.txt it is still triggering a new thread in Apache which will use a bit of RAM and CPU. If blocked in etc/hosts it just stops it before Apache is triggered. It is somewhat like a firewall and the request is essentially sent to /dev/null.

I thought it would be better if we had one “go to” question in meta and drop the several other versions, if possible.
Then everyone will know as much as anyone without having to post/read several question.

If you receive a 500 Internal Server Error during the next several days, can you relax?
Standard

If you receive a 500 Internal Server Error during the next several days, can you relax?
Mobile

Thanks @ibstubro
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