# Slate.com gone -- any idea what happened? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 26, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827 "2010-03-26T01:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spazurek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@spazurek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spazurek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/1 "2010-03-26T01:59:49Z")
I enjoy the online news/culture magazine **[slate.com](http://slate.com)**. It worked fine this morning, lots of new content. However, as of this afternoon, when I go to [slate.com](http://slate.com) it takes me to the washington post web site. ([link to slate.com](http://www.slate.com)) Google doesn’t yield any indication of what’s going on. Anyone else have a clue? Please tell me it’s just a glitch! Or sabotage by teabaggers, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/2 "2010-03-26T02:02:41Z")
Just came up for me. ---
**Author:** ![spazurek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@spazurek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spazurek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/3 "2010-03-26T02:04:12Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Just came up for me. ??You mean, if you click my link, you go to [slate.com](http://slate.com)? Could it be that just my internet neighborhood is somehow corrupted?? ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/4 "2010-03-26T02:05:40Z")
I have never been to slate before, but I’m sure it doesn’t normally look like this. It is almost completely unformatted. Bob ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/5 "2010-03-26T02:12:30Z")
> [@spazurek](#): > > ??You mean, if you click my link, you go to [slate.com](http://slate.com)? Could it be that just my internet neighborhood is somehow corrupted?? > [@urban1z](#): > > I have never been to slate before, but I’m sure it doesn’t normally look like this. It is almost completely unformatted. > > Bob Formatting was strange in FireFox, normal in Chrome and IE8 and FireFox is now normal. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/6 "2010-03-26T02:12:32Z")
when I click on your link, it takes me straight to [slate.com](http://slate.com), without any gibbled formatting. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/7 "2010-03-26T02:19:57Z")
When I click on the link in the OP, I get forwarded to [http://www.washingtonpost.com/](http://www.washingtonpost.com/) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/8 "2010-03-26T02:24:00Z")
[slate.com](http://slate.com) works for me, but you’re right, the formatting is all off. Maybe they are upgrading their servers or got hacked. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/9 "2010-03-26T02:26:23Z")
It looks like the style sheet is either messed up or missing to me. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/10 "2010-03-26T03:15:41Z")
Looks fine to me, no forwarding or weird formatting. ---
**Author:** ![Cagey\_Drifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/11 "2010-03-26T04:09:59Z")
Looks totally messed up to me. And I go to this site regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/12 "2010-03-26T04:35:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > When I click on the link in the OP, I get forwarded to [http://www.washingtonpost.com/](http://www.washingtonpost.com/) The are certainly having issues Oddly enough for me, the original posters link [http://www.slate.com/](http://www.slate.com/) is forwarding me to the Washington Post When I type [http://slate.com](http://slate.com) it goes to the website (actually this forwards me to [http://web.slate.com](http://web.slate.com)) When I go to [http://slate.com](http://slate.com) in K-Meleon which like Firefox is Mozilla, it is fine. But in IE the site is off. So I would think a CSS stylesheet isn’t being read correctly by IE8 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/13 "2010-03-26T08:32:01Z")
I am getting messed up formatting at Slate, in Firefox, IE8, Safari and Chrome. It looks to me as though the CSS is not loading at all. I have occasionally had similar experiences at other newspaper web sites, but usually then I can get it to format properly with a reload or two. My guess is that the CSS file is stored on a different server, or a different drive, to the HTML, and that the former is malfunctioning. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/14 "2010-03-26T10:28:24Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > [http://www.slate.com/](http://www.slate.com/) is forwarding me to the Washington Post > > When I type [http://slate.com](http://slate.com) it goes to the website (actually this forwards me to [http://web.slate.com](http://web.slate.com)) I’m having these problems, except that in Firefox the formatting is off. ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/15 "2010-03-26T15:09:45Z")
Both links are working fine for me. Slate is owned by the Washington Post. My guess is you caught them in the midst of some sort of server maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/16 "2010-03-26T15:38:50Z")
I’m in firefox and it looks perfectly fine to me, clicking the OP’s link. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/17 "2010-03-26T18:12:29Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > I’m in firefox and it looks perfectly fine to me, clicking the OP’s link. Yeah, whatever was the problem, seems to be fixed. I saw issues this morning, but none now. ---
**Author:** ![stempo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@stempo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stempo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-com-gone-any-idea-what-happened/533827/18 "2010-03-27T20:58:55Z")
> [@spazurek](#): > > I enjoy the online news/culture magazine **[slate.com](http://slate.com)**. It worked fine this morning, lots of new content. However, as of this afternoon, when I go to [slate.com](http://slate.com) it takes me to the washington post web site. ([link to slate.com](http://www.slate.com)) > > Google doesn’t yield any indication of what’s going on. Anyone else have a clue? Please tell me it’s just a glitch! Or sabotage by teabaggers, perhaps? Aha! So I’m not the only one. 🙂 Here’s what I’ve found: – It happens on Firefox but not on Internet Explorer. – I tried resetting the computer; that didn’t fix it. – I tried removing Firefox and reinstalling it; that didn’t fix it. Are you using Firefox too?