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Restricted for users in Syria. Community testing in February 2026 confirmed that the site loads fully for reading, but creating an account or signing in fails with an IP-based error, which blocks Syrian users from posting, commenting, or voting while leaving read-only browsing available. No outreach to the company has been made yet.
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Community testing confirmed that Stack Exchange is accessible for browsing from Syria but account creation is blocked. The site loads fully — questions, answers, sidebar, and navigation all render correctly. However, attempting to create an account or sign in returns the error: "Account creation fai...
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