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How to turn off the RED maintenance notice?
Does anyone know how to turn off it? Every time I open a new question, it will pop up on top. And I have to quickly scroll down to avoid to see this Big Red bar. Its so annoying.
If it makes you feel any better it scares me too. ;) Hopefully it means that Unity is upgrading to the new version of Stack Exchange.
While waiting for answers, I have figured out some ways that may to solve this problem. But none is perfect solution which comes with a cost.
1 Manually
Each time you open a new page in UnityAnswers, you move your mouse quickly over to right scroll bar of browser and close your eyes. After you count 5 secs in your heart, slowly drag down a little bit. then open your eyes. It needs some practice though.
2 Physical blocker
You need a cutter, A4 paper(s) and glue. Cut the paper to right size and cover the top part of your monitor.
3 Logical blocker
If you feel above solution is tedious, then find a video player in your PC. And scale it to be able to just cover the red bar on screen. Usually these software has "Always on Top" option, turn it on. If don't have ,you need to download one.
4 No more bloody RED
Change your screen display to Black and White.
a. For desktop users, you could adjust your external monitor settings to achieve it.
b. For laptop users, you need to have the graphic card driver installed. And change the saturation to 0.
5 For $$anonymous$$ac users, press ctrl-alt-command-8. Now it's cyan ins$$anonymous$$d of red. The website is also now a "stylish" dark theme...bonus!
I LOL'd at your solutions. Just thought you should know.
Hey Guys,
Sorry you don't like my clumsy way to alert you all to an important downtime. We didn't have a way to make these kind of alerts go away. Not all our users are here every day and I want to make sure as many users as possible know about the downtime. If you click the x at the right of the notifier we now drop a cookie onto your browser and hide the notice. (I have tried this on Safari, Firefox and IE8.)
For the interested, StackExchange, who currently host answers.unity3d.com have changed their business model and will close down the site. Because of this we are moving the site over to the good people at dZone, who have a solution called QATO. The downtime next week is to allow us to migrate the database from SE to QATO. Once the migration is done answers.unity3d.com will reappear. It'll look pretty much the same with a few cosmetic changes.
Thanks, Graham
Would it be worth mentioning in the bar, that UA will be on new software, and that things might be slightly different - and/or buggy? :) I haven't see any advance notice to the general users either here, or in the Blog, about the change.
For all those that are interested, The QATO website has a prototype of what the Unity Answers will look like ported over to their frameworks. http://qato.com/
:-)
(The data on that version is about a month old)
@Cyclops - when we launch on the new version we'll of course ask our community to be alert and let us know of anything that looks wrong. We are as sure as we can be that the migration will go smoothly - we've certainly tried it once already. We have to do this migration, and of course we want the new site to be better than the current one.
@Graham, regardless of how perfect the transition is :) It's good practice to inform your users of any upco$$anonymous$$g major changes - like a total software replacement.
it's a part of the website. you should ask unity's web developers to implement a close button for it. another way is to use your browser's javascript console to hide it but i think it's not what you want because it takes time. you can also wait for may 17th to don't see it again.
Agreed, they should also show it like 2 days before, not a whole week!
I can imagine there are people who don't visit very often (why not?!-) so a week is fine for me, but a 'close' button (with cookie or something to remember that I remember) would be great.
Use Chrome. It'd suppress the red bar once you axe it.
