I occasionally get emails like this one from last night:

The first time I open Chizumatic, your title graphic displays a "bandwidth thief" warning instead of the expected fan-service pics. After I expand one of your posts or click on the comments link, the fan-service pics reappear.

Over the last few years I think I've gotten similar reports five or six times. When I've looked into it, every time it's been because the person was using this: http://www.chizumatic.mee.nu

Pixy has set up the mee.nu servers so that they handle that correctly. However, my server (which hosts the top rotation pictures) doesn't consider that a valid refer, and sends the deterrence GIF instead. (Yes, I could fix it. No, I'm not going to.)

When you follow one of the links on this page, it's formed correctly and so my server will send you the top rotation picture. When you then return to the main page with your "backup" button, the URL is still wrong but the top rotation picture is in your browser cache, so it displays properly.

The solution is for you to fix the link or shortcut you're using to visit me, to eliminate that leading "www.". This is the correct url for this site:

http://chizumatic.mee.nu

If you use that, you won't have any problems.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 12:05 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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