Page Refresh Issues

Users frequently report a website or page failing to load or update properly, which is resolved by refreshing, hard refreshing, or reloading due to browser caching problems.

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Sample Comments

R0b0t1 Oct 27, 2020 View on HN

Same here, now refreshing typically doesn't work.

spc476 Apr 8, 2018 View on HN

You could have reloaded the page. That worked for me.

em-bee Dec 20, 2025 View on HN

i thought i had refreshed, but apparently not. it worked when i tried again, after i had closed the browser.

affalytics Feb 18, 2022 View on HN

Thanks for the feedback! Will try out the UI suggestion. I have encountered that hard refresh issue also and will fix it.

elliottcarlson Jul 21, 2014 View on HN

I am not using adblock and had the same behavior - refresh fixed it.

junot Jun 22, 2022 View on HN

I had the same thing happen to me. Page worked after refresh though.

erkjs Dec 26, 2023 View on HN

Makes sense, thank you! For now, I'd suggest to reload the page for a quick reset

vincentriemer Jun 30, 2015 View on HN

in 10.11 it seems like this is fixed and the page won't always need to reload.

pzht Jul 3, 2017 View on HN

We've just tried on our side, works fine. Was it still the same after refreshing?

mgkimsal Mar 3, 2021 View on HN

Strange - I didn't see that behaviour, then did on a reload, then didn't again on the next reload. ??