A lot of the text, from the buttons on the header to the titles of articles, doesn't show up on the homepage for me. I tried hitting Ctrl + F5 which I believe is the 'hard refresh', but it didn't fix the issue.

After mousing over something, its text will begin showing, even if I mouse off of it afterwards.

This bug happens on Google Chrome, which I use primarily, but it doesn't happen on Mozilla Firefox. I'm running Google Chrome version 33.0.1750.154.

Here's a screenshot of how the homepage looks for me (my mouse is placed on the Forums button, but it doesn't show in the screenshot):

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Thanks for the report!

I had this happen to me twice yesterday, but I've been unable to consistently reproduce it -- if anyone else is experiencing this could you please let us know your browser/version and anything note-worthy about that particular page-load?

I'm also using Chrome version 33.0.1750.154 m

I did use an ad blocker during that screenshot because I'd forgotten to disable it on this site. Sorry!

I realized after making the screenshot, so I've got the ad blocker disabled on all pages of the GameDev domain (something I should have done a while ago).

The issue seems to be gone now. Just in case it had to do with the ad blocker being turned off, I tried putting it on again, but the issue is still gone, so it probably wasn't related to that. It just seems to have fixed itself overnight.

Yesterday, when I made this thread, the issue was happening consistently every time I visited the site.

It started happening again when I loaded the homepage.

Oddly enough, when I open the console (F12), all of the text is fixed and starts showing up again.

I get errors in the console, but I'm not much of a web developer, so I'm not sure if they're actually relevant to the issue here (it seems every page I visit gets some errors in the console, for some reason).

The first is an error and the second is a warning:

(2) Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < (mnc.html:2)

event.returnValue is deprected. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead.

However, these errors seem to appear even when it loads properly, so maybe they aren't related.

I find it odd that just opening the Chrome console fixes all of the text, though.