Long post… A couple of days ago I migrated my forum to a new server. The migration went well and users were able to log in and use it as normal. However, after 2-3 hours logged in users found that they were unable to use it. I didn’t see the problem initially, but within 10-15 minutes I found my ac…

Auto-minify perhaps? [image] Resolving "SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier #..." caused by Cloudflare Auto Minify Sysadmins Cloudflare’s ‘Auto Minify’ feature will break recent versions of Discourse. In the browser console, you will see an error like: Uncaugh…

Thanks for the suggestion. It was turned on. I’m not sure why though because I don’t normally turn it on. I’ve turned it off (JS, CSS and HTML) but I’m still seeing the repeating pages scrolling down the screen. PS. I note that Cloudflare auto-minify is being deprecated in early August.

[image] Chris McMahon: I’ve turned it off (JS, CSS and HTML) but I’m still seeing the repeating pages scrolling down the screen Have you followed the instructions to clear the Cloudflare cache as well?

[image] David Taylor: clear the Cloudflare cache Yes. Cloudflare cache (and browser cache) has been cleared after auto-minify was turned off.

In that case, I’d recommend checking the browser developer console to see if there are any errors when the issue occurs. You may also like to try Safe mode again now that you’ve fixed the cloudflare issue.

[image] David Taylor: You may also like to try Safe mode again now that you’ve fixed the cloudflare issue. Safe mode is working now. No errors in JS console other than a timezone deprecation warning. I’m going to switch back to default theme and disable all the theme components to see if it w…

It does appear that auto-minify was the culprit. I don’t know how/when it got enabled. I didn’t do it knowingly, having been bitten by similar problems with other systems in the past. My suspicion is that Cloudflare recently (I think) added a button to activate a set of basic settings to improve the…

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