With the recent changes to FreeCanada, we also changed the landing page when you enter the web-link 'freecanada.win'.
Before, it used to re-direct you to 'freecanada.win/forums/general', now, it re-directs you to 'freecanada.win/forums'.
The reason for this change, is that any person not logged in, would be re-directed to 'freecanada.win/forums/general/', which would show up as a broken page for them.
They would not see our welcoming thread post for non-logged-in folks, and as such, they might assume that FreeCanada is down.
This change did have two unintended consequences though:
(1) 'forums/general' takes longer to load, and thus, setting the landing page to it, would effectively make FCW slower to use because you would be going through that web-page first
(2) Tor takes longer to load as it is, and, for people perhaps with slower internet connections, the coupled effect of being on Tor and loading 'freecanada.win/forums' as your first opening page to FCW, might cause it to get stuck. I know for my slower internet, to use Tor I sometimes have to refresh 2-3 times to get un-stuck, on the first page I go to on FCW
The forum back-end does not currently allow for us to re-direct non-logged-in folks to 'freecanada.win/forums', while re-directing logged-in-folks to 'freecanada/forums/general'.
For the time being, we would suggest manually entering the web-link 'freecanada.win/forums/general' to speed it up, perhaps put it in your bookmark bar if you use it often.
Before, it used to re-direct you to 'freecanada.win/forums/general', now, it re-directs you to 'freecanada.win/forums'.
The reason for this change, is that any person not logged in, would be re-directed to 'freecanada.win/forums/general/', which would show up as a broken page for them.
They would not see our welcoming thread post for non-logged-in folks, and as such, they might assume that FreeCanada is down.
This change did have two unintended consequences though:
(1) 'forums/general' takes longer to load, and thus, setting the landing page to it, would effectively make FCW slower to use because you would be going through that web-page first
(2) Tor takes longer to load as it is, and, for people perhaps with slower internet connections, the coupled effect of being on Tor and loading 'freecanada.win/forums' as your first opening page to FCW, might cause it to get stuck. I know for my slower internet, to use Tor I sometimes have to refresh 2-3 times to get un-stuck, on the first page I go to on FCW
The forum back-end does not currently allow for us to re-direct non-logged-in folks to 'freecanada.win/forums', while re-directing logged-in-folks to 'freecanada/forums/general'.
For the time being, we would suggest manually entering the web-link 'freecanada.win/forums/general' to speed it up, perhaps put it in your bookmark bar if you use it often.
