# Uncaught SyntaxError: forum spins nonstop and never loads

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**Created:** [October 5, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncaught-syntaxerror-forum-spins-nonstop-and-never-loads/281219 "2023-10-05T22:11:05Z")\
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Hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. As titled, our forum at [forum.wackywriters.com](http://forum.wackywriters.com) spins and never loads. Console shows this series of errors:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/7/3/773cd4c45bb9c508eb1e214f914bec2e00696d39.jpeg)

Mostly Uncaught Syntax Error, though there is a “jQuery is not defined” a little later (total of 46 errors). This started today without any warning or updates on my part, so not sure what triggered it.

Troubleshooting I’ve tried:

- Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild.
- Run cleanup, rebuild again
- [Safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) disabling ALL themes and plugins (official or not). I can get to the [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) page, but upon entering it I get the same errors.
- I am behind Cloudflare (yes, I know) and confirmed brotli compression was up and working. Purged the cache over there and bypassed their regular caching (development mode) to make sure everything’s working on their end. Cloudflare template is active in app.yml. Setting to DNS only or disabling Cloudflare entirely throws an insecure error (SSL certs are through them).
- Confirmed DigitalOcean wasn’t having any issues.
- Rebuild again for good measure.

What’s interesting is there are no errors (from today) in the logs. I can reach the site, but something between getting there and accessing the full Discourse forum is sending the site into meltdown mode.

The only thing that has changed in the last week was me updating my Font Awesome Pro license key in app.yml, but that was a few days ago. Forum didn’t start doing this until today. Can anybody think of something else I could try to troubleshoot this (short of disabling CF completely or restoring from a backup)? I’ve been working on this for hours today with zero success. Can provide more screenshots or my redacted app.yml file if someone thinks those will help.

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