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Comment by arctangent | Hacker News Reader

Their site is completely unusable for me too. I'm amazed that they haven't fixed this, and amazed that it made it through testing without being spotted.

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I go to m.gizmodo.com, which makes it partially useful, and the stories are readable if clicked from there. Of course, when you try another gizmodo link it fails.

What a disaster, but will they have the balls to go back?

Hmm...yes, m.gizmodo.com seems to work, provided you manually remove the '#!' and leave the rest of the URL alone.

In theory if one had a web server running locally, one could add gizmodo.com to /etc/hosts and map it to loopback, then configure said web server to catch gizmodo.com and rewrite the URL to redirect to m.gizmodo.com instead...

Like this perhaps, using Apache's mod_rewrite:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}     kotaku\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  _escaped_fragment_=(.*)    
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)           http://m.kotaku.com/%1 [L,R=permanant]

edit: hmm, might need this set after the one above, for URLs without _escaped_fragment_:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}     kotaku\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)           http://m.kotaku.com/$1 [L,R=permanant]

Easier solution, if you use chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlknelhingldnlmpgn...

Im sure FF versions exist, and it uses ca.site, so it has the old design.

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