It’s fixed now. At least, I think it’s fixed. Please let me know if it’s not.
The site uses a HTTP Referer check because most of my bandwidth was being used for hotlinking on random people’s blogs. At first I tried serving up a different image, an animated gif of Kermit the Frog humping a stuffed bunny, but that didn’t really help. It was funny, but didn’t improve the bandwidth situation. So instead I redirected those requests to a password-protected directory. That worked. The downside is that I have to add every domain (like BLF) to a whitelist if I actually want to host images from other sites.
BTW, if anyone is interested, I’ve mostly updated the BLF stylesheet for the Chrome “Stylish” extension.
This basically re-themes BLF to make it a little easier on dark-adjusted eyes — a dark theme instead of the default bright white theme. I put the files up here: http://toykeeper.net/torches/css/
… and here is an example of how it looks (click for full size):
It’s not complete yet, but it’s getting there. There are a bunch of little details I haven’t chased down, like why there’s a big blank spot at the left side. Someone else wrote this originally, I updated it a bit, then after today’s site upgrade I had to update it quite a bit more. So, I’m not totally familiar with every line of CSS… but it mostly works.
I’m apparently having DNS issues. In my work computer and phone on wifi (home and work wifi) the “slow dns” link just redirects back to the same “we’re back” splash page. I can’t get to blf at all.
On my phone on LTE everything is working perfectly