Usually I get this error fixed by resetting my identity in the browser but that is a bummer considering that I lose every tab open at the time.
When I run into Tor-related issues with Bitcointalk, I usually hit Ctrl+Shift+L (i.e. New Circuit for this Site), and that almost always clears it up (and leaves my tabs intact).
Thank you! I wasn't aware of this shortcut and concept, it just worked the last time that this error appeared. I'll close this thread today if nothing more appears to discuss regarding this topic as surelly I won't be the last one with this problem...
Taking the opportunity, do you have any sense of the genre like TalkImg?
I know that some users sometimes wait a while to open the page, having to close the tab and open it again.
It mostly depends on the time of the day that I try to access the website. About 1 ago I was getting the message "One moment we're checking..." but it was only one time and it quickly disappeared. I guess it has to due with how many users are accessing the website at the time of my request.
Has anyone faced this problem before?
Yes, but it also happens to few .onion domain i've visited. For reference, when you visit Bitcointalk.org on Tor Browser you actually visit .onion domain due to one of CloudFlare feature[1]. You can verify that by checking
alt-svc header when you access any page on this forum. And as @PowerGlove said, i also use Ctrl+Shift+L to solve the problem.
[1]
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/I've opened the
Developer Tools window and searched in the
Network tab but didn't find any mention of the
alt-svc header. And it seems the issue that I was having is related to this service offered by Cloudfare as there is still discussing regarding how to display this routing per these tickets[1][2]:
Today I noticed that the tab had switched to a "Problem Loading Onionsite", "Onionsite Has Disconnected", "The most likely cause is that the onionsite is offline. Contact the onionsite administrator.", "Details: 0xF2 — Introduction failed, which means that the descriptor was found but the service is no longer connected to the introduction point. It is likely that the service has changed its descriptor or that it is not running." page from the #19251 (closed) feature.
Ah ha! I looked at my circuit path and my exit was 78.129.193.54, which is a non-exit relay.
And it looks like my webcomic has switched to cloudflare.
So this was an alt-srv situation, and it's another instance of "Tor Browser is using an onion address but nothing in the interface gives me a hint about it".
[1]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41703[2]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40434
