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: 2) by gman003 on Monday June 08 2015, @12:09AM
I can confirm this problem as well. So far, every page I've visited has blank moderation dropdowns until I refresh. Even if I've been to and refreshed a page before, browsing back to it from the front page causes it to blank out again.
Looking at the HTML, I see it's sending options like this:
<option value="HASH(0x5f40fd0)"></option>
While the functional ones send:
<option value="0">Normal</option>
Hope that helps narrow down the cause of it.