The snippet server (and along with it any chance of loading/saving from the playground) will be offline for a short period of time tomorrow on September 2nd between 8am and 9am UTC.
The switch requires DNS propagation AND SSL certificate update. Last time we did that it was almost unnoticeable (we switched our tools to a new service provider), and it should be the same this time as well.
In the unlikely event that the snippet server will be offline for a longer time, I will temporarily switch back to the old service.
I hope you donāt use the snippet server in production (you probably shouldnātā¦) and I hope this downtime wonāt cause any issues.
Does this mean the snippet server will be faster after the switch? I experienced some delays here or there lately from the GUI Editor. Didnāt bother mentionning this until this post.
Thanks for the warning! We do very much use the snippet server in production for many, many things. I talked to @PirateJC about this a few months ago and he said that was reasonable. good luck with the update!
I have a temp fix if you want to be sure itāll continue working while the domain changes - this will require changing the snippet server URL you are using.
You should NEVER listen to that guy! Heās the worst!
Kidding of course. The Snippet server is stable, but does require occasional maintenance as @RaananW is tackling here. Hopefully should be pretty seamless for everyone.
This is unacceptable You could at least do this sort of thing on a Sunday night between 2am and 3am and preferably sync it with the change for winter/summer time.
The server should work fine already. Response time seems to be much better on repeated requests (which was an issue before). Let me know if something doesnāt work!
Oops didnāt realize that. Well if I was you, I would have waited for after my breakie and my 2 coffees, somewhere around 10 am. Now cut this useless thing and go take a rest; you deserve it
Sure will do, later in the day, in case. Letās just cross fingers this will not happen.
Good night,
Oh, and I thought you were such a dedicated person You know, I did this sort of crap earlier in my carrierā¦ until I realized nobody gives a damn about this sort of effort then I stopped.
I can already confirm this. At least with the GUI Editor and PG snippets.
For the GUI Editor, my scene that is currently parsing 21 times the snippet for ADT was showing, before update, āwaiting on snippetā¦ā. Now, itās waiting on my dropbox files. Same when editing links in the Editor. It comes quite a bit faster. No need for measuring it, the difference is big enough that you can simply experience it.
So far, so good. Will see over time but I guess for as of just now, you can call this a success
Just wanted to say āThank youā for this change. The new server seems to deliver just beautifully (at least so far). I know itās the kind of change where people only complain because the server may be offline for a short time until the DNS populates. In my opinion though, itās the kind of change that shows the dedication and professionalism of the people working on this framework. So, I just wanted to say: GJ
You could at least do this sort of thing on a Sunday night between 2am and 3am 
and preferably sync it with the change for winter/summer time. 
Well if I was you, I would have waited for after my breakie and my 2 coffees, somewhere around 10 am. 
Now cut this useless thing and go take a rest; you deserve it 
At least with the GUI Editor and PG snippets.