USE THIS THREAD: Is the Build Server Down?

[aliexalter]

It looks like corona sdk team is disassembled. Some one has left and others dont know what he was doing in the team. They must be trying hard to find someone to fix build server issues. If team can shared a log that one of us might help the team.

At least tell us how much time it will take e.g. week more. We also have to tell our partners when patch will be release. Some might be developing apps for fiverr clients as freelancer. Their time might be running out.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? its like I want to pee badly and someone is not coming out of toilet. I also paid the rent of the house.

Due to Corona Virus search lots of people land on corona sdk pages heavy traffic might be the issue.

Server upgrade did not go wel like planned OR

Its updated and dont know how to do previous settings.

[caroline7]

@spencer0

Is there a service status page I can look at as oppose to dig through the forums

http://status.coronalabs.com/

[Aarbron]

I have successful builds almost every day.

A few minutes ago I had one again.

It happens specific hours and might have to do with location too.

The reason I’m writing this is to help some people.

Make sure it’s Corona and not you.

Get a vpn, if needed, and find what time works for you.

Do not expect many answers and explanations from Corona stuff in this thread (not implying that we should stop posting).

They are working on the issue, they will make a post or two and that’s all.

Right or wrong, that’s how they do business all these years and it will not change now.  

Eventually they will fix the server problems.

It’s the first time something like this is happening.

[caroline7]

Managed an Android build just now

[spencer0]

Thanks for info.

Just built an IOS app - built very quickly as well. 

[authorwjf]

I’ve been using Corona for years and despite my early worries that something like this might happen with the build server, I’ve got to say in 7 years this is the first time there has been a serious enough outage to impact my projects. I wonder with the project going open source if this is not also a time when we should start thinking about local builds? Does anyone in the community know if there is documentation somewhere for building projects locally? Several years back I built a plug-in. For that, I did build the plug-in itself locally but then consumed it from my LUA project and built by pushing my code to Corona’s build server. Any one with experience building their projects locally? If so, perhaps you can point us to the documentation? In the long term, we might all be better off building our projects locally anyhow and then the folks at Corona can focus on the daily builds and monetization plug ins. Other thoughts?

[stalxerhd]

It looks like a targeted attack against the Corona SDK team. All business days the server is down and developers could not use Corona SDK, the attack stops on the weekend (Saturday or Sunday) when everybody resting.

If it was spontaneous failures or an influx of users, they would have dealt with it long ago. Since this has been going on for three weeks, it is obvious to me personally that someone is destroying a competitor.

[nick_sherman]

@stalxerhd

It looks like a targeted attack against the Corona SDK team. All business days the server is down and developers could not use Corona SDK, the attack stops on the weekend (Saturday or Sunday) when everybody resting.

If it was spontaneous failures or an influx of users, they would have dealt with it long ago. Since this has been going on for three weeks, it is obvious to me personally that someone is destroying a competitor.

Corona has done a good job of destroying itself over the past 10 years, it doesn’t need any help. It terms of a product it’s top notch, but in terms of being a serious business rival for anyone with more than $20 to spend on marketing, not really.

Not saying it’s not an ‘attack’ of some sort, but if it is then just for the hell of it rather than any commercial advantage.

[shashwat]

It’s getting a tad ridiculous at this point honestly. Can someone with any sort of rapport with any Corona staff try to contact them directly and see if the community can get involved by helping in some manner or form? 

Non-enterprise accounts like ours don’t matter much to them so posting here is futile for me and their paid options have no attraction for me but I will like to help out otherwise in any manner possible. 

[0x0000ff]

@nick\_sherman

Corona has done a good job of destroying itself over the past 10 years, it doesn’t need any help. It terms of a product it’s top notch, but in terms of being a serious business rival for anyone with more than $20 to spend on marketing, not really.

Not saying it’s not an ‘attack’ of some sort, but if it is then just for the hell of it rather than any commercial advantage.

I agree.

But actually corona is a great engine.

I prefer corona over Unity.

Anyway

I think there’s an opportunity if Corona sees the future a little bit and invests.

For example,

Make a service like English tutoring service.

Anyway, The entire Corona website, including the forum here, needs to be reorganized properly.

[nick_sherman]

@0x0000ff

I agree.

But actually corona is a great engine.

I prefer corona over Unity.

Anyway

I think there’s an opportunity if Corona sees the future a little bit and invests.

Absolutely, so would a lot of people if they knew it existed. 

Unfortunately the days of multi-million dollar investments in Corona appear to be over, and the opportunity to establish itself as one of the main players has long since passed. How do you compete with Unity, they can afford to make it free for companies earning under $100,000 and still get enough revenue from those that do make money and the asset store commission from all those free users to employ a huge staff. Then there’s the likes of Defold, GameMaker Studio, Godot or Love2D which started about five minutes ago compared to Corona and already have much bigger traction.

I mean look at this Google search!

We have been fortunate up to now that Corona’s current owners keep it going with a skeleton staff, who bare the brunt of previous mis-management.

[nick_sherman]

@0x0000ff

I agree.

But actually corona is a great engine.

I prefer corona over Unity.

Anyway

I think there’s an opportunity if Corona sees the future a little bit and invests.

Absolutely, so would a lot of people if they knew it existed. 

Unfortunately the days of multi-million dollar investments in Corona appear to be over, and the opportunity to establish itself as one of the main players has long since passed. How do you compete with Unity, they can afford to make it free for companies earning under $100,000 and still get enough revenue from those that do make money and the asset store commission from all those free users to employ a huge staff. Then there’s the likes of Defold, GameMaker Studio, Godot or Love2D which started about five minutes ago compared to Corona and already have much bigger traction.

I mean look at this Google search!

We have been fortunate up to now that Corona’s current owners keep it going with a skeleton staff, who bare the brunt of the consequences of previous mis-management.

[stalxerhd]

@nick\_sherman

Corona has done a good job of destroying itself over the past 10 years, it doesn’t need any help. It terms of a product it’s top notch, but in terms of being a serious business rival for anyone with more than $20 to spend on marketing, not really.

Not saying it’s not an ‘attack’ of some sort, but if it is then just for the hell of it rather than any commercial advantage.

I don’t interested in what happened in 10 years. Back in june I searched 2D engine, found Corona and start to work with SDK just from scratch. Now, after 3 months of development, pushing my simple idea to release.

[emmanuel.guerin]

Once again, Corona SDK is really great : powerfull, easy to use, fast etc.

But the lack of information is really unbelievable. the problem has been going on for more than 2 weeks and it’s getting worse every day. Now, I even have difficulty accessing the forum. 4 times out of 5, I get an error message…

@aliexalter

It looks like corona sdk team is disassembled. Some one has left and others dont know what he was doing in the team.

@nick\_sherman

We have been fortunate up to now that Corona’s current owners keep it going with a skeleton staff, who bare the brunt of previous mis-management.

Are these assumptions or do you have any real (and shareable) information about the CoronaLabs teams?

[anon63346430]

@nick\_sherman

We have been fortunate up to now that Corona’s current owners keep it going with a skeleton staff, who bare the brunt of the consequences of previous mis-management.

Well said! Although those remaining few are nowhere to be seen recently.  Servers broken for 50% of the day for weeks…

I have stuff on the 2018 road map that is still not done yet.

[nick_sherman]

Are these assumptions or do you have any real (and shareable) information about the CoronaLabs teams?

Assumptions yes but based on what I see, all indications are that Corona is now essentially Rob and Vlad, and it doesn’t appear Rob is full-time either. 

In addition if Corona had any more staff than the bare minimum and a desire to grow they would be updating the website, putting out public builds that aren’t old enough to talk, travelling to trade shows and developer conferences, and sponsoring events or game jams. And of course, they’d probably be able to get the build server working reliably…

[anon63346430]

And then there was two…  yeah Rob and Vlad are barely online this year either

[ojnab]

Don’t blame Rob and Vlads.

Blame Appodeal.

[emmanuel.guerin]

Thanks nick_sherman for your answer, but you don’t mean that the whole staff consists of only two people, do you?

I don’t think anyone’s to blame here, not to mention that I personally have often appreciated Rob’s posts for their accuracy.

But the only important question is can we count on CoronaLabs, at least in the medium term?

[nick_sherman]

@emmanuel.guerin

Thanks nick_sherman for your answer, but you don’t mean that the whole staff consists of only two people, do you?

I don’t think anyone’s to blame here, not to mention that I personally have often appreciated Rob’s posts for their accuracy.

But the only important question is can we count on CoronaLabs, at least in the medium term?

It can’t be far off that, we haven’t heard from anyone else or heard anyone else mentioned in the past few years. If there were any more man-hours available then I don’t see why the website and public builds would lay dormant and surely give the impression to newcomers that the platform is dead. Even just the message at the bottom of each page, ‘Copyright 2009-2017 Corona Labs Inc. All rights reserved.’, paints the wrong sort of image.

I don’t think anyone’s blaming the visible staff, they do a fine job, but Corona has had a succession of owners that have jumped from business model to business model and none appear to have worked, despite having a product that was largely unrivalled up until the past few years.