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On October 28th, 2024, the Scratch site experienced a major outage which caused several important features of Scratch to stop working, such as comments on projects and studios and sharing projects. In addition, many popular high-traffic pages returned 500 errors.
The Scratch Team acknowledged the issue and has resolved it.[1]
Controversy
During the outage, many Scratchers were outraged,[2][3] and some even claimed the servers were DDoSed.[4] A stickied topic on the issue had over 1,000 replies within a few hours, and some were even using it as a chatroom.[citation needed]
Scratch Team Response
After the Scratch Team became aware of the issue, they posted an update on X (formerly known as Twitter).[1] Later, the issues got so bad and uncontrollable, that the Scratch Team had to temporarily shut down the Discussion Forums, and later the entire website, for around 1 hour. The Discussion Forums were reopened on the 2nd of November.
After the issue was resolved, the Scratch Team lowered the maximum number of students in a class to prevent abuse of teacher accounts.[5] Classes can also no longer be reported.
References
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- ↑ a b @scratch. (2024-10-28). "Heads up! We're currently experiencing technical difficulties on http://scratch.mit.edu impacting load times. Our engineers are hard at work finding a fix. We'll share updates as soon as we have them." https://x.com/scratch/status/1850958442686452144
- ↑ Jigglypuffcupidcute. (28/10/24). "this error is so annoying it's not letting me say "thank you for crediting" to someone" [[1]]
- ↑ Knit_Knotz. (28/10/24). "The site is unusable at the moment, I don’t care if it goes down, I just want it fixed!" [[2]]
- ↑ Gamer_Logan819. (28/10/24). "Some people offsite have done some digging and it is looking like we have been hit with a DDoS attack" [[3]]
- ↑ topic:799384
