It's an actual redirect- if you look quickly, before the redirect, there's a page titled "Your Page Title," with the text "Optional page text here." If you press Control + U quickly enough (at least in Firefox), the source code comes up. It is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

Your Page Title

Optional page text here.

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[-]Psy-Kosh15y20

Odd. The redirect was coming from LW? o_O

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[-]Jayson_Virissimo15y40

I had the same problem with Firefox. It seems to be fine now.

EDIT: The same thing happened again. This is the website it redirects to (for those lucky enough not to have this problem). It seems very unlikely that this is simply a DNS error.

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[-]Weeks15y20

It happened to me again today, and doesn't seem to happen again with my cache cleared. I'm using Chrome.

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[-]SarahNibs15y20

I get the redirect in Chrome but not IE or Firefox. I usually use Chrome.

ETA: cleared history, didn't work. Cleared cache, problem fixed.

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[-]orthonormal15y20

Still redirecting for me in Firefox. Safari is fine.

UPDATE: Fixed as soon as I cleared my cache.

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[-]JGWeissman15y20

I am observing this in Firefox but not Chrome.

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[-][anonymous]15y20

The front page (and the rest of LW too) is redirecting/going down and back up again at different times.

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[-]purpleposeidon15y00

My first thought is that LW got haxXxed, but ping tells me that LW and the other site are both hosted by amazonaws. I suspect the cause is amazon's cloud service making sure I won't use it.

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What's happened to the front page?

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