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. ??