Bhante @sujato (Dhamma Greetings Bhante) Is there a developer that could look at this? Or any other logs that are needed I am happy to debug. I have been trying for months now, havn’t got it working.
It never worked for me either, and I tried it every other year since the feature was first introduced. It has always been an experimental feature, I belief. Nobody seems to know why it works for some but not others. (If you do ever get it to work, please give me nudge.)
The legacy version has almost everything I need, though, and it works fine offline. (download here) Use it together with epubs of the translations, and you got almost all the content of the website offline, even though in a different format.
Let me add here also as an official bug report that installing the offline version makes the site significantly slower, in Firefox on Windows 10, even if the offline function doesn’t work.
See here. Snowbird had a similar problem. Clearing the cache fixed it for both of us.
Appreciated Ven @Sunyo , hopefully this bug can get sorted.
Thank-you for the offline information, I didn’t realize it was still accessible. The main reason I like the offline app is the line by line pali /english though, for those of us who arn’t so good in this area.
Thanks for that, I have used that. My only really purpose for the site, is if the offline feature would work, I prefer to not have the internet for extended periods, so the offline feature as it worked at the start of the site, would be great.
Just seems to be not many people can get it working, and its meant to be a major feature of the site.
I have saved out a few suttas, with line by line for translation, but would be useful to have offline feature working, so the site can be used in an environment with no internet.
Bhante, I believe Bhikkhu Sunyo meant the most widely used desktop operating system in the world, installed on 76×76=58% of desktop computers and which will be supported by Microsoft until October 2025. I don’t think he meant the 2016 Windows Phone OS of the same name (Did you Bhante @Sunyo ?)
I hate to say it too, bhante, but I did try Chrome and a fresh install of Brave (Chromium), and it didn’t work any better. (I’m not sure if it also slowed down the site as well. I didn’t test that.)
I’m not sure how Firefox and Windows 10 would be niche. Considering that Chrome also didn’t work, I think it’s not the browser that’s the problem. And Windows 10, as Khemarato said, isn’t exactly rare. (You’re right @Khemarato.bhikkhu, it’s the desktop version.)
I tried downloading it on a different network, tried clearing cache, tried different browsers with fresh installs. Nothing works. I tried it on Chrome for Android as well, and that didn’t work either.
Cool, but looks more trouble than it’s worth. Considering the legacy edition does do very well what I personally need, and that I’m geeky but not that geeky.
I wouldn’t mind if this redbean thing was the only way to get it to work. The bottom line is, though, that the offline function clearly doesn’t work for a great percentage of people. But it is presented, as Ven Buddho said, as a major feature of the site.
The font you use has an imperceptible pixel or two below base-line on some characters that causes underlines to be broken. This is on FireFox, which I know you don’t always care about supporting. But I thought I would mention it.
I was reading MN109 and opened a new tab to read DN15
I typed https://suttacentral.net/en/dn15 into the address bar and it loaded up the content for MN109 Obviously I typed the address wrong, but I would have rather an error than a randomish sutta.
Latest edit: all working again! Not deleting post in the off chance it’s helpful in future.
sk40 isn’t loading for me on either firefox 108.0.2 or chrome 100.0.4896.75 on Mac OSX 10.14. Other pages are loading just fine. This is the console message in firefox:
XHRGEThttps://suttacentral.net/api/bilarasuttas/pli-tv-bu-vb-sk40/brahmali?lang=en
[HTTP/2 500 Internal Server Error 369ms]
GET
https://suttacentral.net/api/bilarasuttas/pli-tv-bu-vb-sk40/brahmali?lang=en
Status
500
Internal Server Error
VersionHTTP/2
Transferred686 B (36 B size)
Referrer Policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
access-control-allow-origin
*
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400
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BYPASS
cf-ray
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content-length
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content-type
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date
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:15:10 GMT
nel
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server
cloudflare
vary
Accept-Encoding
X-Firefox-Spdy
h2
Accept
*/*
Accept-Encoding
gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language
en-US,en;q=0.5
Connection
keep-alive
DNT
1
Host
suttacentral.net
Referer
https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-bu-vb-sk40/en/brahmali
Sec-Fetch-Dest
empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode
cors
Sec-Fetch-Site
same-origin
TE
trailers
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0
Edit: most other pages are loading fine. sk39, sk42, sk44, sk45, sk46 are also not loading.
I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug. I clicked on this link in another post:
The link itself designates the language: &script=Devanagari.
After visiting that link, now all the suttas I go to are in Devanagri. To me, this is a big error. Especially since when I go to change it back to Roman I am faced with an overwhelming number of cryptic choices:
How in the world am I supposed to know which one of these I had been using for the last 3 years?
And why would I expect that clicking on someone else’s link would change my default settings? Being able to link to a page with specific settings is awesome. However it doesn’t make sense that it would change my defaults.
Considering the legacy edition does do very well what I personally need, and that I’m geeky but not that geeky. 
Obviously I typed the address wrong, but I would have rather an error than a randomish sutta.
and it still didn’t throw me an error… which is all I’m after 
