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[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird - I'm seeing that now too. But I wasn't at the time that I copy and pasted the links, and you can see from the other replies around 8 hours ago that other people were also seeing a site hosting edited versions of xkcd comics. I guess it has suddenly changed, after years of being up, in the few hours after I posted it? I have no idea what happened there.

[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe it, missed it by a few hours.

How the fuck does this even happen - was the site hacked?

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Super late, but I figured it out because it happened again in a more recent comment. Lemmy seems to automatically change the links to https instead of http, even when http was explicitly included in the url. Somehow, xkcdsw is a completely different site on https than on http. If you copy the link into an external browser and remove the s, the link works as intended. I can only assume this is a behavior of the lemmy app(s), which is why it didn't affect some users. Were you using jerboa?