[2026-05] Geekzone unreliable on Skinny

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#324650 8-May-2026 11:32

Nobody else has mentioned this so maybe it's just me, but I figured I should make a thread in case others are silently suffering.

I'm on an iPhone with Skinny. For the past few days when I try to open Geekzone it has maybe a 50/50 chance of loading, vs coming up with "Safari can't open the page because it couldn't connect to the server."

Rebooting the phone, clearing cookies, and even doing an iOS update (to 26.4.2) haven't helped.

Other sites are fine, and Geekzone's fine on my desktop (via Quic) and at work (which I think is Spark). It seems to only be Skinny 4G/5G with the issue.

Is anyone else running into this?

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#3488665 8-May-2026 11:34

Which location?

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#3488668 8-May-2026 11:42

This is an iOS bug. It affects people using iOS Safari on any network, even Wi-Fi.

We tried changing some options, but the bug remains. It's nothing we can do on this side.

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#3488669 8-May-2026 11:44

Behodar:

Other sites are fine, and Geekzone's fine on my desktop (via Quic) and at work (which I think is Spark). It seems to only be Skinny 4G/5G with the issue.

You might find other sites aren't fine. Try quic.nz or vetta.nz and you'll see the same happening.

It seems Safari has a bug that appears when visiting sites with Cloudflare CDN.

The problem is... The connection is not even established.

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#3488671 8-May-2026 11:59

freitasm:

This is an iOS bug. It affects people using iOS Safari on any network, even Wi-Fi.

We tried changing some options, but the bug remains. It's nothing we can do on this side.

Thanks. I've found a couple of other (non-GZ) forum threads about it, so I guess I'll just need to wait it out.

I don't tend to go ISP shopping on a daily basis so hadn't noticed that Vetta was having the same issue :)

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Whakatane, for what it's worth, although it doesn't seem to be location-related.

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#3488672 8-May-2026 12:02

Another forum claims to have worked around the issue by "turn[ing] off HTTP/3 QUIC support on Cloudflare".

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#3488673 8-May-2026 12:05

Yeah, not an option. Apple can fix their crappy software.

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#3488686 8-May-2026 13:01

I thought it was just me lol.

It was happening quite regularly, where sometimes had to open site three times before it worked.

I’m on iOS 26.4.2

Most times site opens at moment, just now and then get the can’t find message. Was more regular at one point.

Hopefully an iOS update fixes it.

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#3488687 8-May-2026 13:03

Behodar:

Another forum claims to have worked around the issue by "turn[ing] off HTTP/3 QUIC support on Cloudflare".

I should clarify. When I mentioned tested it means we tried this and other stuff. It's not the problem. It's Safari.

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#3489706 11-May-2026 12:05

Strange I can use Geekzone and other Cloudflare-backed site fine on iOS across a range of access types (although none of these are Quic, interestingly enough). Does this bug only show up on iOS devices with certain settings?

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#3489720 11-May-2026 13:38

Glad someone has brought this up as I'm experiencing the same problem loading Geekzone on both my ipad and mac os device

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#3489823 11-May-2026 13:57

It was odd.

I noticed for almost 24hrs I had zero instances of this, said something, and now seeing them again.

It is no biggie as if you refresh it loads but is totally an iOS / Cloudflare issue.

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#3489913 11-May-2026 16:28

michaelmurfy:

It was odd.

I noticed for almost 24hrs I had zero instances of this, said something, and now seeing them again.

It is no biggie as if you refresh it loads but is totally an iOS / Cloudflare issue.

Same here, completely stopped for a bit and now it’s back
I did wonder if it stopped due to the changes made to mitigate the quic DDOS

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#3489964 11-May-2026 18:45

skewt: I did wonder if it stopped due to the changes made to mitigate the quic DDOS

Nah. Unrelated there.

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#3489996 11-May-2026 20:54

Behodar:

Nobody else has mentioned this so maybe it's just me, but I figured I should make a thread in case others are silently suffering.

I'm on an iPhone with Skinny. For the past few days when I try to open Geekzone it has maybe a 50/50 chance of loading, vs coming up with "Safari can't open the page because it couldn't connect to the server."

Is anyone else running into this?

I have had it regularly for weeks - Safari on latest iPad Pro with latest OS. Very annoying.

Thought it might be my dns4me settings. I changed to automatic DNS but no effect.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3490022 12-May-2026 08:25

Me too. Have noticed it’s been since the last os update.

Also, the website does that weird narrow formatting thing too - it coincides when a banner ad pops up at the bottom.

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