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I am only getting a search results page with no results. It was like this hours ago already when the submission was still in the second chance pool.

Edit: seems to be a problem with my Firefox profile. A new profile works. My apologies for polluting the comment section with this and thanks to the commenters for helping me figure this out.

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When the Firefox enhanced privacy protection is on, it redirects to the not found page. Weird. Some cookie confusion or redirection issue I guess.

I see an article with a first subheading of "In this report, we apply basic scientific techniques to answer the question “Is Kansas as flat as a pancake?”." It's kind of a funny article. Maybe try this mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210511013956/http://www.usu.ed... ?

I click on it and I get a page talking about how Kansas is flatter than a pancake. I don't know why it didn't work for you.

Oh, please do not downvote them. The comment might be stating something obvious for you but it actually helped me notice that the problem was on my side.

I was downvoted to an unreadable gray, was just sharing what worked for me on Firefox. Enhanced tracking protection makes the browser redirect to https when available and the server weirdly redirects to a 404 page when you try the same url with https. I don't understand why people dislike me just stating the fact? Given a reasoning I'd be more careful but...

It's weird sometimes but don't let this stop you from helping others, I appreciated your effort in any case.

I had the same, seems to be a result of having HTTPS-Only Mode enabled. Looks like usu.edu is available over HTTPS but not this page.

Same issue in Chrome.

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