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orangeluigi

Servers have been down for ages now. I keep getting 500.

s171741

scratch wiki is down for me, I got error 503

Knaginb7438

Turbo_yeeter wrote:
Hey, I don't think that the article on simulating a cloud list is working. It shows up as a 503 error when I try to access it.

Edit: This happens to the entire scratch wiki.

On my end, it just doesn't load. No error.

foxerfuss

IniyavanScratcher6 wrote:
hi how do i unband a banded account

Oh. i'm not sure

kyavanyaisback

guys #ScratchWikiDown

SQUEEZYCHICKEN

Idk if it's just me, but scratch has been really buggy today, glitching out, not loading, and giving me error messages. Anyone know why?

say [From SQUEEZYCHICKEN] for (2) secs

Fredder52

Guys when i put English is not worked

horus1022

Scratch wiki

Wiki

Fredder52

horus1022 wrote:
Scratch wiki
Wiki

Why you post nothing

SQUEEZYCHICKEN

Fredder52 wrote:
Guys when i put English is not worked

No, it works. Trust me, I can read it.

thescratcherfetcher

the scratch wiki is down, i tried to go to any page on the scratch wiki but it gives me error 503.

Fredder52

thescratcherfetcher wrote:
the scratch wiki is down, i tried to go to any page on the scratch wiki but it gives me error 503.

Why scratch wiki is shutdown ?

supersonic61223

The wiki has been down for hours now… Is this maintenance or is the server extremely overloaded? I haven't been able to research anything on the wiki in the last couple of days without seeing a 503 error. By the way, if anyone wants a silly way to learn about http responses then check out HTTP Cat! The owner is really cool. If the link goes against the rules then I'll delete it.

olliegman

Scratch wiki is down…

when scratch wiki is down
display [Error 503 v]
play sound [Error! v] until done

Jordan353865934

when green flag clicked
broadcast (I hate this error. Also, it happened to me with the 500 error! v)

This happened to me too, when I posted a topic/replied to a topic! It showed the 500 error! So when I reloaded the page, it went back to normal.

Last edited by Jordan353865934 (June 10, 2025 18:33:49)

TytoMifa122

Can anyone help me?
I try to open te scratch wiki and it says this: “503 service unavailable. The service you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few minutes.
If this continues, please let us know in the Wiki forum topic.
(Request URI: /)”

This happens every time and I don't know what to do.

SQUEEZYCHICKEN

TytoMifa122 wrote:
Can anyone help me?
I try to open te scratch wiki and it says this: “503 service unavailable. The service you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few minutes.
If this continues, please let us know in the Wiki forum topic.
(Request URI: /)”

This happens every time and I don't know what to do.

Yeah, happened to me to. Just wait until tomorrow, it should fix itself up by then. If not, bring it up with an established, longtime forum member. Sorry to hear that happened to you!

jvvg

Hi everyone,

A quick update about the server situation. We have been continuing to experience server and traffic issues, but we have basically maxed out the mitigations we're able to do with our current server stack. Anything else we can do at this point would basically just be a band-aid and have minimal impact on the actual problem. I have reached out to the people in charge of our hosting about this and requested some changes to the server stack that would actually be a sustainable solution, but I can't make any guarantees here.

Some FAQs:

Why have you not been more responsive? There really isn't much more for us to say beyond “we're aware of the issue and looking into it”. That's been the status for weeks.
Can I set up my own alternative? No. The Scratch Team has placed a level of trust in us to maintain the Wiki to their standards, a level of trust they very rarely give to third-party sites, and I strongly doubt they are interested in passing that on to someone else. In addition, for the levels of traffic we get you will likely find you are going to be dealing with the same problems we are.
Can I have a database dump? No. The database dump contains emails, deleted revisions, and a lot of other information we cannot give out.
So is this the end of the Scratch Wiki? We don't know. It depends on the response I get from the folks in charge of our hosting.
Can I join on the engineering side? No. We appreciate the offer, but we have really maxed out what we can do with our current server stack, and you need a much higher skill level for this than a lot of you probably think you do.
Can you just implement (whatever solution I just thought of)? Probably not. We have done pretty much everything we can on our current server stack. Short of the changes I have requested, anything else would be mostly ineffective, and for why we can't just magically change our server stack, see the next FAQ.
Why can't you just get better servers? Servers cost money, and we are also stuck with what we have for legal and administrative reasons that are out of our control.

mrschoollover

why does the wiki not load?

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ispretty

mrschoollover wrote:
why does the wiki not load? ?

read the post above yours

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