But now the first page of this thread is accessible, probably through the magic intervention of our dear mods.

It looks like the names of the thread pages evolved few years ago, and neither Google nor some indexes here followed that change.

But now the first page of this thread is accessible, probably through the magic intervention of our dear mods.

 

No, almost certainly not. It's far more likely that any accessibility issue is at your end of the internet.

@Enthalpy: Did you have a webshield running? My own AV(Avast) seems to think that the first page is infected(html:Script-inf). Other scanners are not reporting anything though. In any case it may have blocked page access on those grounds.

I have some protection software but it's tuned to tell me each time it refuses data. It did so when an alleged infection was detected here.

 

What I believed to have seen is that the older page addresses on Scienceforums were different, so I imagined that Google and here the thread lists pointed to a mismatched address.

 

My end of the Internet is in old Europe, where censorship does exist. The excuse is terrorisme / child pornography / illegal drugs, but censorship is known to exceed this field in a manner hard to justify nor even grasp. Then the Internet also relies on computers and software, which do need reasons to malfunction - but not clear reasons. I don't want to make a hastily opinion on the present case.