Minecraft is down

[Hitmaniac]

Its being attacked currently so it'll be up in a couple of hours hopefully.

[Shadowday]

its working for me? lol

[Reaper8281]

huur derp
its not being attacked... the hosting is having some troubles... if it were being attacked we wouldnt be getting errors such as 502 and 504

[Corndog]

Stop talking about things that you have no idea about. Their server isn't getting attacked, they're migrating hosting.

[allgames]

someone got an account for me cant create i got 502 bad error

[dfireball122]

ME:It has not been attacked here these is from notch him self:

NOTCH:Once again, minecraft.net is more popular than the poor old server can keep up with, so we’re upgrading. I’m not quite sure how long it will take to get done as it’s mostly Tobias doing the work (thank you, sir!). We’ve got a huge amazon cloud server which we’re moving the main server to. We’ll be able to replicate this as demand grows, and we’ll have a load balancer set up in front of it all. Skin downloads will almost certainly be migrated to S3 downloads instead of going through resin as it does now, and we’ll have a separate server just to handle game logins and auth requests.

In other news, we spent the day today out of the office in various cafés, as the floor was getting fixed. And we got the Machinim*****m IGA awards! They’re pretty!

If you want to see some pics from the office and Mojang in general, Carl has a photo album here. It gets updated every now and then.

For Minecraft development, we’re working on the new file format, and a new game launcher. The file format is still in early testing, but it’s looking somewhat promising, except for it taking up a bit too much space. It’s faster, though.
The new Launcher will be a bit prettier, will show release notes and other news, will send login requests over https (finally), and will ask if the user wants to update to the latest version or not. In the future, we’ll add support for playing the previous installed version (after warning the player that there might be unexpected bugs) and the ability to choose what work directly to save the level files, but that’s not coming in this version.

We’ve got a meeting planned for tomorrow with some community members to discuss how to best implement the modding.

[Reaper8281]

thank you... +1 for non-idiocracy

[allgames]

but who got an account for me?

[Reaper8281]

no choob... just... no

[allgames]

but how i get a account now?

[Reaper8281]

you gotta wait for the site dummy lol

[allgames]

how long it wil take?

[cosconub]

next time try Down For Everyone Or Just Me -> Check if your website is down or up?

[allgames]

the site is up!