remove the email outage banner

Jeffalo

hey i had a good laugh when i noticed this.

so remember when scratch was experiencing a disruption with email delivery, they added a little banner to every page? i guess once the issue went away they just added a bit of css to hide the banner. i'm fairly sure now that the issue is gone the banner isn't necessary.

pros:
the code is slightly cleaner
i've seen it display in some google search results, so by removing the div from the page it hopefully should stop appearing as the description for scratch pages on google.

cons:
it would take very slightly more effort to add it back in case of another disruption.

here's the wonderful div

and heres how it would have displayed when it was actually there

removing the div should only take like 10 seconds hopefuly coolt hanks for coming to my tedtlak

thr565ono

Jeffalo wrote:
hey i had a good laugh when i noticed this.

so remember when scratch was experiencing a disruption with email delivery, they added a little banner to every page? i guess once the issue went away they just added a bit of css to hide the banner. i'm fairly sure now that the issue is gone the banner isn't necessary.

pros:
the code is slightly cleaner
i've seen it display in some google search results, so by removing the div from the page it hopefully should stop appearing as the description for scratch pages on google.

cons:
it would take very slightly more effort to add it back in case of another disruption.

here's the wonderful div

and heres how it would have displayed when it was actually there

removing the div should only take like 10 seconds hopefuly coolt hanks for coming to my tedtlak

Wouldn't this fit better in bugs and glitches? Or, if you have github, just post it on the scratch-www issues.

Jeffalo

thr565ono wrote:
Wouldn't this fit better in bugs and glitches? Or, if you have github, just post it on the scratch-www issues.

i don't think its a bug since it was added intentionally… it's not a bug… it's a feature (sorry i had to do it)

it only affects scratchr2 so posting it in scratch-www is not an option.

--EXPLOSlON--

Support I guess, definitely not a big deal though.

scratchastroLOL

--EXPLOSlON-- wrote:
Support I guess, definitely not a big deal though.

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Last edited by scratchastroLOL (Aug. 10, 2020 17:03:51)

Maximouse

Support, leaving things like this in the code is not a good idea.

Basic88

Support! It is not really needed.

Jeffalo

it's still there, i feel like this is affecting SEO as well…

willowmint-

Yeah I was looking through the code and I just randomly found it! I agree they should remove it, because it's not relevant anymore and it's just wasting space which might make Scratch slightly slower.

bigbigbigeeveefan

I'm just gonna follow the trend, support I suppose.

Bluebatstar

I feel like this is something that wold just be unnecessary to remove, and, like you said, may take more effort to re-add just in case. If it doesn't affect the website, then No Support because removing it is just effort for no reason. And I don't think the Google thing is enough reason.

Maybe somebody could prove me wrong, though.

Jeffalo

Bluebatstar wrote:
I feel like this is something that wold just be unnecessary to remove, and, like you said, may take more effort to re-add just in case. If it doesn't affect the website, then No Support because removing it is just effort for no reason. And I don't think the Google thing is enough reason.

Maybe somebody could prove me wrong, though.

well the way it's currently hidden, affects the way search engines and stuff like that reads the page. i doubt they'll have another email outage that ends at 8am EST again so adding it back is a matter of just putting the same code back in.

heres a google search that requires the exact message to show up

thats like 2 million hits of basically just scratch!!!

Bluebatstar

Jeffalo wrote:
Bluebatstar wrote:
I feel like this is something that wold just be unnecessary to remove, and, like you said, may take more effort to re-add just in case. If it doesn't affect the website, then No Support because removing it is just effort for no reason. And I don't think the Google thing is enough reason.

Maybe somebody could prove me wrong, though.
well the way it's currently hidden, affects the way search engines and stuff like that reads the page. i doubt they'll have another email outage that ends at 8am EST again so adding it back is a matter of just putting the same code back in.

heres a google search that requires the exact message to show up

thats like 2 million hits of basically just scratch!!!

Still, removing it just feels like effort for no reason, nonetheless. I doubt anybody typed that into Google, apart from you testing this.

fdreerf

Bluebatstar wrote:
Still, removing it just feels like effort for no reason, nonetheless. I doubt anybody typed that into Google, apart from you testing this.

That's just an exact search. Those 2 million results are probably sprinkled all over results for email delivery services not working

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Jeffalo

Bluebatstar wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
Bluebatstar wrote:
I feel like this is something that wold just be unnecessary to remove, and, like you said, may take more effort to re-add just in case. If it doesn't affect the website, then No Support because removing it is just effort for no reason. And I don't think the Google thing is enough reason.

Maybe somebody could prove me wrong, though.
well the way it's currently hidden, affects the way search engines and stuff like that reads the page. i doubt they'll have another email outage that ends at 8am EST again so adding it back is a matter of just putting the same code back in.

heres a google search that requires the exact message to show up

thats like 2 million hits of basically just scratch!!!
Still, removing it just feels like effort for no reason, nonetheless. I doubt anybody typed that into Google, apart from you testing this.

it shows up as the page description

mrfrog199

This would actually take around 2-5 minutes to fix.

Maximouse

Jeffalo

Maximouse wrote:

i can reproduce this

Jeffalo

mrfrog199 wrote:
This would actually take around 2-5 minutes to fix.

agreed, and it could be bunched in with any regular update

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