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Problem viewing Medium publishing platform

Unread post by Armano » 2022-09-15, 10:03

Operating system: Win7 Professional
Browser version: Pale Moon 31.2.0.1 (64 bit)
32-bit or 64-bit?: 64 bit
Problem URL: http://medium.com/
Installed add-ons: none
Installed plugins: (about:plugins) none

Problem:
I'm having troubles viewing Medium publishing platform pages using Pale Moon browser. Pages appear on screen for only a few seconds and then disappear leaving me with a blank page (screenshot attached).
I asked Medium for support and got the following reply: Hi Armano, Sorry to hear you're experiencing problems. Unfortunately, we are only able to support the latest two versions of the following browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari.
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Re: Problem viewing Medium publishing platform

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-09-15, 10:09

Armano wrote:
2022-09-15, 10:03
Unfortunately, we are only able to support the latest two versions of the following browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari.
They actually meant to say they are only willing to support latest and latest-1 of those browsers. :P
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Re: Problem viewing Medium publishing platform

Unread post by vannilla » 2022-09-15, 11:40

Anyway, the error is once again because of a regex.
It's very curious how the page actually exists for a brief moment, but then because of the error the entire content is deleted. When looking at the DOM the page body is empty except for a container div and scripts.
That's React for you, I guess.

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Re: Problem viewing Medium publishing platform

Unread post by adoxa » 2022-09-16, 08:04

I ran it with JS Deminifier (1.0.9.2) active and it worked (almost, there were no code blocks in the page I tested). JSD adds a space between =>, causing multiple errors, but still allowing the page to display. Patch JSD to preserve them and the page again fails to display.

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Re: Problem viewing Medium publishing platform

Unread post by jobbautista9 » 2022-09-16, 11:34

Another workaround is to use scribe.rip. It works well and has a good side effect of being lightweight. :thumbup:
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