The websites of good people still treat readers terribly

I am a big fan of Nick Wallis, a journalist who has doggedly followed the Post Office scandal from the beginning. It's potentially the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

He seems like a genuinely good guy. He and others serve as trustees of a charity to help victims of the Post Office, and some of the proceeds of his writing and speaking work go towards this charity.

But his website is outrageous.

I was browsing his blog article, "The compensation catch".

The compensation catch (Nick Wallis blog)

Part way through reading this, well after the page had fully loaded, the content was blanked and replaced with the words "Content cannot be displayed", indeed not just the content but the footer with the advert for Nick's book. The reason appears to be that the webpage makes the browser *check* if one can access the web, and removes the content if this is no longer the case!

My home internet is currently patchy due to a hardware failure. When I pass between the living room and my bedroom, I go from being online via my mobile phone, to the normal home internet, to my next door neighbour's WiFi. My normal internet link, which is also over WiFi, is currently down. You can "connect" to the WiFi, but the only machines you can communicate with are the ones in my flat: the printer, the music server, and so on. Anything on the public web is inaccessible. So moving from one room to another causes the page to lose its content.

Whatever benefit this supposedly brings (and I imagine it's down to programmer arrogance and laziness rather than some business model), it is just mildly infuriating.

Obviously, Gemini doesn't permit this kind of garbage.