Flickr hasn’t been loading for me at all today — all morning long it was giving me a DNS error saying that the server couldn’t be found.
Now I seem to be getting something…but I don’t think I’m getting what I’m supposed to be getting, and I’m afraid that were I running an exploitable browser (like, oh, Internet Exploder), I might be getting some nasty surprises.
Loading the main flickr page ( http://www.flickr.com/ ) stalls for a while, and then loads one of the many generic “looks like a search page while we install exploits onto your system” pages that float around when domains disappear. Included in the page are two javascripts, one of which ( http://www.flickr.com/js/pu.js ) is loading a popunder window.
This is really a shame. Looks like someone forgot to renew their domain on time, and it got snapped up from underneath them. Hopefully it all gets straightened out soon.
Update: They appear to be back. No word (yet?) on the flickr blog as to what might have happened.
“X-Lover” by Sheep on Drugs from the album One for the Money (1997, 3:55).