Okay, but now it works for me at least 
Thank you. I’ve made another tweak, let me know if it happens again. I’m trying to sort of fine-tune based on users’ experience 
Ate you being a practical joker, or can’t I render your smiling face with tears? 
Ok, let’s go back to the default settings 
I can render your smileys now. Even the sad cat.
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Out of curiosity, do you use a VPN or a non-standard (in any way) connection? Just trying to figure out why the security would detect your connections as false positives.
No, I can see photos now
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No I just browse from my Android mobile phone. I might have an ad blocker, but I don’t really think so.
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It seems that increasing the security setting alleviated the issue a bit, but I can’t keep it this way because of the false positives 
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So I’ve decided to block Singapore 
, Mexico 
and Hong-Kong 
from using the CDN.
Again, this does not prevent users from accessing the website, the loading time will just be slightly increased. It angers me a bit on principle. Even if very few visitors or users come from those countries, blocking countries defeats the very CDN purpose.
And it will not completely solve the issue so the CDN cost will increase anyway, but more up to like ~5-6$ a month instead of 1~2$ a month, which remains acceptable (compared to the 50$ August!) .
It’s just a very, very broad estimate, I’ll keep an eye on it and advise in a few weeks.
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I’d research the IP address and AS number. It’s a single server. With the tools I’ve linked, you can download the entire IP list of that AS number from a server and block it via .htacess. For example, today I had 400 hits from a Hetzner server again, so I blocked the entire IP range. This is (unfortunately) a daily task.
Unfortunately, the IPs that make requests on the forum aren’t present in this website’s database.
There’s no .htaccess, Discourse uses nginx, and we can block IPs in the forum’s backend.
But that wouldn’t change anything, as the blocking must be done on the CDN, which comes before the forum’s server.
I can’t bulk add IPs on this interface, but since the IPs aren’t known as spam addresses, that wouldn’t help anyway.
Perhaps I could use rate limits, but I need to do research to know what rates would be effective without disrupting a normal use of the forum, and if it would work or not.
There are many rules that can be set in the CDN backend, but I don’t have the network skill to know how to tweak those, it’s highly technical.
I don’t have the energy to gather knowledge on this matter right know but I’ll try to get some info in the future.
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For the last hours at least (I haven’t checked this weekend) the forum has been unavailable to me. It just keeps loading with the five blue dots.
Also testing the enhanced email reply feature out of desperation 
Weird, there should not be any issue. If it were because of my settings, there would be an error message.
On computer, can you open the site while having your browser’s dev tools open and tell me if there are red messages (errors) in the console and network tabs?
Does it work on your mobile phone, using your mobile connection?
Okay, So I am back in civilization again and the Forum indeed works from an actual PC.
It doesn’t work from a Tablet on WIFI or from my Mobile phone on mobile net. Only the blue dots loading and loading on both devices.
Also, the email reply feature doesn’t work if I include an image (an experiment yesteday, I only just now saw that it didn’t work).
Have you tried clearing the cache? Due to the way Discourse woks, I wouldn’t be surprised if it would have cache issues at some point.
I know we have a bunch of IT engineers in the unicycling community. You may ask from them to help you out in this wild territory.
PS: I’m not qualified as a network engineer
Sadly, it didn’t work.
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What happens if you use your mobile connection on your computer? If you can check the console and network tab from your browser’s dev tools this way, it would be very helpful.
Can you share more specific details? Did you have any error messages?
I haven’t had any other report than yours regarding this issue, so it’s difficult to know what’s going on. I’ll update the forum just in case.
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Reply: Nothing happened. No error message.
Forum Update. Hooray, now it doesn’t work on my desktop either!
man. 8. sep. 2025, 11:19 skrev Canapin via Unicyclist.com <noreply@ses.unicyclist.com>:
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After I updated the forum, I was stuck on the loader too on Chrome (desktop). It worked on Firefox.
I noticed that on Chrome there were 403 errors on .js files. I manually opened a .js file URL:
https://cdn.unicyclist.com/extra-locales/bb47abc452efbb16095a71e9bd55f788faeb08fc/en/main.js
It loaded, and after I could open the forum.
I’m not sure if opening this URL changed something or if it was just a coincidence. Can you try?
Can you also try opening the forum in another browser?
Can you tell me if there’re errors in the console tab of your browser’s dev tools when you’re stuck on the loading screen?
I’ve also purged the CDN cache, it might help.
OK. So I ran develop mode/tools in chrome.
main.js: Status 403 (109 ms)
chunk.556(hex string?).js Status (failes) net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ORB (241 ms)
So what is this evil ORB blocking my access to the unicyclist forum? Is this the wheel I lost? Do I HAVE to put it back on?
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