Tell HN: After the US gov shutdown, the Census data website was broken

  • Posted 1 day ago by NewJazz
  • 3 points
The US Census data explorer (https://data.census.gov) is currently broken. A redirect with a warning message that "the website will not be updated due to the shutdown" was put in place at some point. Existing assets such as javascript assets are being redirected to this HTML page, thus breaking the entire website.

This tool is essential for researchers to access US population statistics. The modification in connection with the US government shutdown seems to have done more harm than any good it could have caused.

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