Preview site offline for a while

alex_w

Hi all,

A slightly belated heads up for those of you who keep an eye on the Preview site (preview.community.giffgaff.com) for any new developments we're working on.

We're temporarily disabling access to Preview. Don't worry - it will be back. At the moment, however, we're busily working through a host of development priorities that we won't be testing in Preview until they are complete. Keeping Preview open carries a cost (both in terms of £, as well as using a limited resource that other teams occasionally need), so we'll be letting it sit idle for a while.

We'll let you know as soon as we plan to bring it back up.

endorphin

alex_w I was wondering why it was offline but I suppose if needs must. 🙂

bill48er

Hi alex_w
Could we not have a 404 redirect to a holding page rather than the "Try Again" page?
When I come across these my first thought is that there is a problem with my kit/connection 😉

Thanks
Bill.

richybhoy36

alex_w Thanks Alex :-)

mrjeeves

I got really excited thinking you were premiering the site as a PWA with cached offline support then... 😅😅😅

It's sad to see the preview site go, but I'm sure we can all understand why.

persco

Thanks Alex 👍🏽

alex_w

bill48er The site isn't available at all - that means we can't serve a 404 for it. Instead, your browser is handling it with whatever message it feels is appropriate. In my case, I'm getting a "This site can't be reached" error.

anth006

Any news on this please alex_w There was some great developments over there and it's a shame to lose them.