We are having some difficulties with the site at the moment. We are aware that there is an error being presented about our certificate being expired. We are working on it and appreciate your patience while we iron this out.
Interim measure #1: try to use the non-secure link to the site http://soylentnews.org
Interim measure #2: Accept the expired cert, but be sure to uncheck the 'Permanently store this exception' checkbox (this may not be available to you on very recent versions of Firefox).
If you have other suggestions on workarounds, please submit as a comment. Be certain we are doing all we can to get the site back up and running!
[Update] NCommander reports that: "New SSL certificate has been installed and the site no longer generates certificate errors. I'm continuing to do work to get performance for Firefox to be decent."
[Update 2]: A revised frontend proxy is nearly operational and ready to go into service which will resolve performance issues for firefox
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @10:35PM
Not talking about nodejs, the specific platform you mentioned? Ahh, I see. You mean ajax, web 2.0, etc. Well, if you knew anything about this site's community you'd know that a js dependent site is not something that we want. In fact, any js dependent features are supposed to gracefully fall back to non-js functionality.
BTW, what I - and many others in this community - want from the internet does not require everything and anything to be written in js. It has its place, and I've written countless lines of js (with or without one of the libraries & frameworks that make it even easier to spread the web 2.0 gospel).
I'm so glad you've been generous enough to tell us how we're doing it wrong and how we should share your expectations for the internet. Who knows, without your insights we might be stuck in the 90's internet for the rest of our browsing lives. Now, what did I do with my GeoCities compatible color palette?