On Mozilla Firefox, the Scratch servers go nuts like this TOO OFTEN:

No, seriously: I commonly get redirected to the 500 error page (which still contains the link to download Scratch 2.0 Desktop)!

If you need to know:
My browser / operating system: Windows 7, Firefox 88.0
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I think this is an issue for all browsers. Why would a website be down for 1 browser but not others?
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its not Firefox the actual scratch wasnt working

CST1229 wrote:

I think this is an issue for all browsers. Why would a website be down for 1 browser but not others?
Sorry, you have to wait 60 seconds between posts.

You know, at first, I used Chrome, then moved onto Edge, then onto Firefox. This problem didn't occur on Chrome or Edge. Perhaps this is how Firefox works; it isn't based on Chromium (as you probably know)

And also, during the early months of Scratch 3.0, I had a problem where I couldn't create or view my unshared projects. I was getting redirected to a 404 error page every time I did this. This then stopped, but I once got the same problem some days ago. Also, when I left the Scratch project editor after this, I got a page telling that the Scratch Team is trying to fix the 404 error problem. But the 500 error problem didn't occur to me until now.

So, there must be a way to fix this. If the ST finds out that the 500 error occurs when not expected on Firefox, they will find out that this is most likely a bug in the Scratch website. Or, if the problem occurs on all browsers, the ST would have problems themselves: maybe the Scratch servers experience too much problems as of now

So, we must go for it.

I use Firefox and I have no issues with Scratch (right now)

EddyTheFox12 wrote:

This problem didn't occur on Chrome or Edge

yeah because the scratch site wasnt down when you used them i use firefox everyday and nothing ever goes wrong (EXCEPT WHEN SCRATCH SERVERS A DOWN NOT SPECIFIED FOR FIREFOX)
scratch has been doing maintenance for a while

Fryman2599 wrote:

yeah because the scratch site wasnt down when you used them i use firefox everyday and nothing ever goes wrong (EXCEPT WHEN SCRATCH SERVERS A DOWN NOT SPECIFIED FOR FIREFOX)

Chiroyce wrote:

I use Firefox and I have no issues with Scratch (right now)

Maybe that's the point. You guys told me that Scratch actually had problems with its servers, but I didn't realize what you told me at first. Looks like the Scratch Team gets too many power outages as of now, or perhaps is making changes to the website without putting it into Maintenance Mode.

So I think I'll most likely close this topic because I found out what actually went wrong. Thanks for the advice guys!

This isnt actually just Firefox, for some reason it happens almost every day now.