Something broke. I think there was no problem when I last visited a couple days ago. Today all posts have only a down arrow for the spillover actions, no icons. If I move the mouse above where the icons /should/ be, the pointer turns into a finger. So the actions are still available but just invisible.
Did the update of the Anubis AI scraper check I did yesterday change anything with your situation?
Today is my first visit since the OP, and it’s all good. So somehow it is fixed.
Ok, lets see then. There have been some upstream changes in Anubis to make it less paranoid for changing IPs I think. But please let me know if it happens again.
I’ve also seen this recently. Waiting a few minutes and refreshing the page (using the browser, not the site’s own interface) usually fixes it. Network issue perhaps? Server load?
refreshing made no difference for me. Tried a hard refresh (control-shift-R).
Upon seeing your edit, I don’t know what the problem is, but @[email protected] might know how this works. slrpnk.net didn’t upgrade to a new Lemmy release in the last few days, so that wouldn’t be the problem. Did you upgrade your browser?
No I did not change my browser. But today it works so it seems they fiddled with an anti-ai-scraper mechanism and now it works again.
I updated the anti-AI-scraper tool to the latest version just now. There are some fixes that might have solved your issue, but not sure as I again can not replicate it.
Clear your browser cache, should fix it.
I’ve experienced this on and off as well. Deleting slrpnk.net cookies and then just refreshing and browsing a bunch of times seems to fix it eventually, but I’m not sure if it’s the deleting cookies part or the refreshing and navigating around part that fixes it.
So far though, I’ve only experienced this issue on the standard lemmy-ui, where as it does not seem to happen on Photon and Alexandrite, so that could be a temporary fix for those still effected.
Ok, so I am still not any closer to figuring out what the issue is, but I had it earlier today on my mobile phone when connecting through a mobile data plan. Upon returning home I switched back to wifi and the issue was gone… strangely even when switching back to the mobile dataplan afterwards. Maybe it is somehow related to switching IPs while connecting from different locations or so?
(One pattern of AI scrapers is that they run a full browser server once to get real cookies and so on, and then transfer those to a cheaper server to do the actual scraping, so maybe a mobile data-plan with changing IPs accidentally triggers this).
I use Tor so my IPs would be all over the place, perhaps even changing across the same session cookie.
Maybe you could try with an dedicated app instead of the web-site? The direct Lemmy API access is not behind Anubis at all and thus should not have such issues.
