503 errors - smurfy servers unavailable

Thread in 'MechSpecs News and Info' started by Excalibaard, Jun 26, 2022.

  1. Excalibaard

    Excalibaard 101 010 Staff Member

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    Hi all,

    Some threads have been giving 503 errors recently. This is because they used code from Smurfy's site, which has been inactive for a while, and apparently the servers have now been shut down. Therefore, all builds that used Smurfy's mech cards are unavailable as of now.

    There's not an easy fix for now. I'd like to recreate them, but that is a huge undertaking, and only the legacy MechDB v1 has mech cards. The newest version of MechDB doesn't yet support them, and the API doesn't seem to be accessible publicly for a solution of our own.

    Just letting you know that we're aware of the situation, and will try to resolve it ASAP.


    EDIT:
    It seems the outage was temporary, and Smurfy cards are back up! Here's to another year of mech build sharing!

    EDIT 2:
    Down again. This time it seems more permanent. I don't think we'll be able to restore the old builds on the site.
     
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  2. gweedotk

    gweedotk New Member

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    I get the following when trying to look at builds
    mwo.smurfy-net.de refused to connect.
     
  3. Excalibaard

    Excalibaard 101 010 Staff Member

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    It has been reported on the discord as well. About 90% of the content of the site were builds created with Smurfy, which is an external tool that has been taken down permanently now it seems.
    We can't restore those builds on our end, except by trying to recreate builds in MechDB or in-game, based on the thread title/discussions.
     
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