I have recently found this website and wished to share the particular questions pertaining to Bridge with a friend of mine in the UK so I sent them the following link but they said it wouldn't work. Is this because it is in Beta at the moment, is it a country specific website or something else?
link used: https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bridge
The Beta is public, and available to all. It doesn't even require a log in. And Stack Exchange doesn't filter based on country.
Your friend's problem is downstream. Corporate firewall, or perhaps overzealous parental controls?
You can always take a look at http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ if you aren't sure if a site is up.
If the link is currently available to your friend, but wasn't before, then it might have been because of database issues that occurred recently. Checking StackStatus.net
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