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[r1k]

nope, they work normal for me.

[Ashbad]

nope, they work normal for me.

Same here.   

[Ai]

Oh well. After disabling all Firefox extensions, this behaviour is still present. Maybe it's a bug in this particular version (14.0.1). Thanks for the feedback, anyway, I'll just have to work around it for now.

[AlexHW]

maybe scan your computer for malware or wahtever.. dunno the correct term for it.. or try clearing you cookies and temp internet files? idk..

[PixelPiledriver]

I'm using chrome on my laptop.
I also get sent to orchids and onions from the main page.
I thought pixelation was down but was surprised to see that in chrome on my phone it works just fine.
It's possible to get around this by jumping to a personal message from gmail and then using my profile to jump to different sections.
Crazy.

[Ai]

@PPD:
Actually, the distinguishing characteristic, for me, is that the link points at 'index.php' without an '?' following.
For example, if you look at the top-ish menu bar ('HOME HELP SEARCH PROFILE MY MESSAGES MEMBERS LOGOUT'), do you find that only the HOME link is crazy, and all the others work?
If you look at the two links I was referring to before, they show as
"http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php" and
"http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php#1" (1 being the number of the category "General" in this case.)

Everything else works. Since you've managed to reproduce this, I'm now moving to the hypothesis that it's an effect caused by a combination of a) the PHP giving bogus header information when no parameters are given, in a way that is harmless to most browsers, and b) A browser that actually interprets that data rather than simply ignoring it.

To demonstrate, try these links instead. They work for me:

http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?#1

It will be fascinating to see if PToing has anything to say about this (and WTF orchids and onions have to do with pixelation. Maybe they are just random junk data stuck in a database or cache somewhere on the server.)

[PixelPiledriver]

Well played Ai.

Yup these links DONT work for me:
"http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php" and
"http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php#1" (1 being the number of the category "General" in this case.)

And yes these DO:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?#1

But not sure why this is coming up just now.

I'm now moving to the hypothesis that it's an effect caused by a combination of a) the PHP giving bogus header information when no parameters are given, in a way that is harmless to most browsers, and b) A browser that actually interprets that data rather than simply ignoring it.

It could be along the lines of a deadbeef debug value. Or not.

Whatever it is, it sounds delicious.

Edit:
http://www.orchidsandonions.org/  

[ptoing]

All these links work for me as they should. I have no clue what is going on here at all.
The hosting company we are with atm is under new management and they moved servers and because of this I have no direct access to the database atm. So it might have to do something with that, no clue really.

Things will get sorted out soonish.

[Charlieton]

Let's face it, you guys. Pixelation is HAUNTED!   



Still working as normal for me, though. (currently running on latest version of Firefox)

[Âme]

Let's face it, you guys. Pixelation is HAUNTED!   

By a ghost who has a strange fetish with orchids and onions.

I'm having the same problem as Ai and PixelPiledriver. I just have internet explorer... and the sneaking suspicion that the problem isn't on our end...