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Comment by mamurphy | Hacker News Reader

It's not clear whether this is getting sincere upvotes despite that the page is currently failing to load or ironic upvotes because the page is currently failing to load.

In any event, he's not fixing your issue yet because he has limited free time and, apparently, has issues of his own to fix.

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I thought the blinking cursor was there to imply we needed to write the blog post ourselves.

I'm only slightly embarrassed to admit that I did test it..

me too. just tried typing when cursor loaded. tried to click on cursor

Oh yes! That's the first thing I did!

You need to click the link - here is the actual article https://archive.is/t9oKw

Better one http://archive.is/j8zAk

Thanks, I didn't realize the blue headline was actually a link to click. I thought the author had replaced the body of the article with a "please go away, my site is overloaded" message.

It wasn't really clear to me that that is supposed to be a link. It's in a position I would normally expect a headline to be and it's not underlined or accompanied by any other text indicating it might be clickable.

I thought the "thanks for the hug, HN" comment was unrelated.

EDIT: It now says "(link)" in front of it. Not sure whether that's new or I just overlooked it.

Well, hardly issues to fix, more just life happening.

"It's not clear whether this is getting sincere upvotes despite that the page is currently failing to load or ironic upvotes because the page is currently failing to load."

Clever thought. That didn't occur to me.

A few minutes ago, there was a link redirecting to the article on the page with the cursor,

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