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Joshua Fouts's avatar

It wouldn't be entirely inaccurate to say that you are in fact radically changing healthcare. I prefer to follow you here anyway. Anyway. Bummer. So sorry are having to deal with this bizarro nightmare of an event.

Heather Havrilesky's avatar

Thanks, Joshua. I'm going to need some radical changes in my healthcare to get through the stress of this!

Zobot's avatar
Apr 3Edited

Bluehost is the absolute worst.

Tim Quirk's avatar

Was very happy to get this message, as I spent a very confusing half hour yesterday trying to open a column from November in Chrome to read on the treadmill, and Chrome kept giving me a 404 message even though I could see the entire column right there in Gmail (I prefer reading them in Chrome because Gmail renders them in a way that squishes them and requires a LOT more scrolling). Mystery solved; old columns I've been saving for workouts can be read again.

Heather Havrilesky's avatar

Ouch! I hate this so much! It took of my DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT fortitude to let this moment go!!! I want everything to be perfect and reassuring and never ???? Or !!!! Or wut??!!! Thanks for being nice!!!

Tim Quirk's avatar

Please keep going long, as it keeps me running longer.

Rachel Wheeley's avatar

I’m so sorry to hear this. Following wherever you are. I thought this was substack already. Hang in there, Polly!

Heather Havrilesky's avatar

Thanks, Rachel!! Xoxoxo

Ken's avatar

One browser (Firefox) shows your old site (ask-polly.com) as a security risk and won't bring it up and claims that the software may be out of date. Weird.

Another browser (Chromium) reports that the security handshaking is sending invalid responses.

Safari reports that it can't make a secure connection to the server. Safari did flash your logo though.

Don't know if any of this is helpful, though I thought I'd report. It's probably not just your domain being affected.

Li's avatar

Lol I thought this was an actual April Fool's joke!

SR's avatar

Not for nothing but this is one of the reasons I hate this aggressive industry push toward AI -- tech companies cannot for the life of us figure out basic problems with the internet age (this dumbass domain issue, shitty site interfaces, internet that sucks because Comcast or someone has a virtual monopoly where we live and no incentive to make service better, complete widespread tech illiteracy in communities segregated from good internet access, etc.) and they're still pushing for bots to do everything? What good is genAI when Polly's tech issue cannot be fixed by AI?

Agava's avatar

Well, this clarifies what happened...I was about to email you and ask what the heck was going on and if you were having security issues!