[pydotorg-www] website: something is weird

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:51 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>
>
> I look at the downloads page a lot as one of the volunteers on the
> "webmaster" alias people ask questions about downloads all the time
> (yes, we have an auto-response that points to more official resources,
> but we try to be nice as well :)
>
> Just now, something has gone strange.  I get a garbled page which is
> headed by this:
>
> Notice: While Javascript is not essential for this website, your
> interaction with the content will be limited. Please turn Javascript on
> for the full experience.
>

I'm not seeing that problem, but I've heard reports from around the
internet of various outages affecting a lot of different services, and
I'm wondering if perhaps a critical library failed to download. The
site appears to use jQuery from googleapis.com, so if there's any sort
of failure accessing that (I've heard hints that suggest possible DNS
failures??), that could break the whole site.

ChrisA