Thanks to amazing folks in this community I’m finally in bootstrap mode of my new forum. It’s working fine on Chrome but.. Why cannot I not access my forum on Safari? I saw a lot of questions regarding use on mobile but none about desktop.

Which version of Safari? Discourse is supported on Safari and I use it under Mac OS daily.

Version 13.0.3 https://forum.irresistible.org

The forum loads for me on Safari 13.0.3 (though it’s log-in required so I can’t see much else). Are you seeing any errors? a blank page?

Hmm, weird. I can’t open the forum in Safari or Firefox (on macOS), but it does open correctly in Chrome. Either way, this looks like an issue with that site’s configuration, not Discourse per se.

I’ve just opened your site on macOS Safari 15.6 What exactly does your user experience? Site not loading at all, missing styles, or …?

Apparently the big Nada. But he reports that Vivaldi is currently working for him.

Can you confirm which version of Safari they’re running? It’s more important than their version of macOS in determining compatibility. El Capitan (10.11) is seven years old now and stopped receiving updates four years ago. Discourse requires Safari 12.5, and as far as I’m aware the minimum requirements for Safari 12 is Sierra (10.12). That said, it should fail reasonably gracefully, can we get more info on what they’re experiencing?

I am asking him what version of Safari he tried and how it failed. I tried to use the discourse site today, and was told that my browser is suddenly unsupported. I don’t remember any general announcement to the effect that Firefox had to be upgraded to some new level inaccessible to me, trying to stick to the El Capitan operating system. Now I am unsure what to do, being prohibited from posting or really seeing the forum properly, and using the most upgraded Firefox available to me. The next day the most up to date version of Firefox available on El Capitan was dropped without any notice that it was about to happen or that it had happened. With some notice, I might have prepared for it, and not been shocked when I tried to follow a thread and found I was not allowed to. Then yesterday 8/22 Safari doesn’t work either. and What I saw was the list of categories and topics, but as a simple list without decoration. I could not log in or access anything by clicking on it. I gather that Vivaldi is, like Firefox, a communally maintained browser, so it probably has its own flaws. But if it works for the discourse site as recently amended. I can use it by copying the links in the “read more” in the email notification. Not as convenient as being able to click on the links, but I don’t think I want to move from Firefox to Vivaldi as my default browser, at least not yet, if ever.

Martin’s reply: Safari Version 11.1.2 (11605.3.8.1)

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Bruce_Nevin (Bruce Nevin) August 22, 2022, 8:49pm 6

Was it a local site config issue, and if so what was the fix? A user of El Capitan is having this same issue now (can’t open discourse.iapct.org with Firefox or Safari).

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