Workaround found to the "blank perlmonks problem"

If, when you go to http://www.perlmonks.org, you encounter a blank page (that returns instantly), the following appears to be a reliable workaround:

Request this URL, instead: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=seekers of perl wisdom

I have not yet determined if this would work too: http://www.perlmonks.org/?

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Re: Workaround found to the "blank perlmonks problem" by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2011 at 19:21 UTC
Um, didn't tye and the others already determine that?	[reply]
Re: Workaround found to the "blank perlmonks problem" by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2011 at 07:29 UTC
It just dawned on me I'm seeing this too. Unlike Is anyone at perlmonks aware that... I get a blank page sometimes on previewing replies, sometimes just visiting nodes, doesn't matter what the url it is or what page it is Refreshing usually returns html, sometimes it takes 3 refreshes tye had speculated it probably is due to database server acting up, sounds plausible	[reply]
Re: Workaround found to the "blank perlmonks problem" by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2011 at 13:27 UTC
FWIW, I don't get a blank page from perlmonks.org or perlmonks.net. That means, of the six permutations of the root URI ({www,}.perlmonks.{com,org,net}), only two are showing blank pages. Of course, I've bookmarked and enter the site through the "Recently Active Threads" node on the dot-org anyway, so I wouldn't have noticed this even if I had been using one of www.perlmonks.{org,net}.	[reply]
Re: Workaround found to the "blank perlmonks problem" by Anonymous Monk on Jul 08, 2011 at 20:40 UTC
That isn't the real question, now is it? The question is ... why is it still broken? Y'know, if it were rewritten in PHP ...	[reply]