Unfortunate news
As you know (or may not have), all of the games present on these websites are hosted with Cloudflare, which is a free website hosting service. The main way to get your website up and running is to use "Workers", which are now unfortunately blocked. This means that I had to make the switch to Pages, which is like a much less advanced version of Workers.
This wouldn't usually be an issue. However, the way Pages works for multiplayer games is that they send a call to the Worker, which essentially does all of the background server managing and multiplayer shenanigans via a program named Wrangler. However, since Workers are now blocked, the Wi-Fi makes it so once the Page calls the Worker, the Worker cannot call the Wrangler because the Wrangler is hosted on an external server elsewhere in the world.
So far, the only presented fix is to use another internet, such as a hotspot, or play the games at home, or someplace else.
TL;DRWorkers are blocked on the Wi-Fi, so multiplayer games can't reach their servers. Use a hotspot, or play at home or somewhere else.
Info for nerds
Browser
-> Pages *.pages.dev static site, the game itself
-> Worker *.workers.dev API + multiplayer back end [BLOCKED]
-> Wrangler external server (per the dev) [unreachable]
- Why it breaks
- The network blocks
*.workers.dev. The Page loads fine, but its calls to the Worker never complete, so the Worker can never reach its own external server.
- Why only multiplayer
- Multiplayer needs a live connection to the Worker (matchmaking, game state, leaderboards). Pages only serves the static files.
- Symptoms
- Requests to the Worker hang or time out, get reset, or return the network's block page instead of a response from the Worker.
- How to test
- Open the test links below on the affected network. A normal response from the Worker means it isn't blocked there. A timeout, reset or block page means it is. Then try again on a hotspot.
- Workers involved
royio.skewezcoolness.workers.dev, pocket-metropolis.skewezcoolness.workers.dev- Fixes so far
- Switch networks: a phone hotspot, your home network, or anywhere that doesn't block
workers.dev.
