Yes it is a bit ironic, showing a decentralised network on centralised service 
Anyway alpha 2 was about clients, but yip it strengthens the case for sure 
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Sorry mate not having a crack, just a bit funny, Im sure you saw the funny side in it too, cheers.
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As outlined in this forum post, weâll be resetting the Alpha-2 network today, wiping user data and restarting the network. Weâll be starting with this quite soon. Note that while this is going on, network connectivity would fail from client apps and the invite server might be unreachable/give other errors too. Digital Ocean also have some power-related maintenance planned today between 17:00-21:00 GMT, therefore we will be aiming to have access restored to the network once this maintenance cycle is complete. Weâll post an update to this thread once everything is sorted and sanity checked.
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The Alpha 2 network reset is now complete!
We have tested the network to ensure that the MaidSafe example applications are working as normal, so do not expect any problems, but should you encounter any issues please let us know in this thread and we will investigate.
Following the wipe of all user data due to this reset, the system will no longer recognise your log in details - everyone will become a new user once again.
You will therefore need to go through the process of gaining access to Network credentials. We are aware that many of you may have forgotten how to do this so below is a simple step by step guide to get you back to SAFEty asap:
- Ensure you are logged into the forum, the Network will need to check you have Trust Level 1 status.
- Open the SAFE Browser, click create an account
- Once asked click claim an invitation
- This will redirect you to invite.maidsafe.net on the clearnet. This is the step in which the Network will check your forum trust level so make sure you are logged in to the forum in the same browser
- Click the SAFE Network logo followed by Alpha-2
- At the point you are given your invite token - make sure your registered and current IPs match
- Copy and paste your invite token back into the SAFE Browser
- Create an account Secret and Password - do not forget these!
You should now have access to the SAFE Network.
Note that you will need to re-authorise apps within the Network and your PUT limit will have been reset.
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Will the old âextraâ invites also work again for those of us who filled up our first account?
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I have created this step by step guide with some screen grabs if anyone is having trouble remembering the steps. Let us know if we can help in anyway too 
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All invites for Alpha 2 were generated yesterday, therefore any invite codes from before the network refresh will no longer be valid
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Iâve been encountering â-2000: Unexpected (probably a logic error): Could not connect to the SAFE Networkâ on and off this morning on the live network. Could anyone confirm this?
E.g., just now using the SAFE web API playground app (when using the connectAuthorised call after initialise and authorise):
I havenât been able to replicate this yet (though, as you note, itâs on and off, soâŚ).
Just to double check on the invite front: itâs not your IP changing or anything like that?
No. Iâm testing it on the 10.0.2 SAFE Browser by the wayâŚ
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Just re-reading this question @happybeing and wanted to clarify to make sure I was giving the correct info - the actual old âextraâ invite codes that you may have been given previously wonât work now, but itâs the exact same process as in you can request new extra invites if required. Hope that makes sense.
All invites for Alpha 2 were generated yesterday, therefore any invite codes from before the network refresh will no longer be valid.
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I was wondering the same thing with old invites. Good idea they donât though cause it could have ended up being s possible problem.
Could do with the âassumes nothingâ links to the downloads⌠Iâm doing too much looking for those⌠the Browser is easy to find but not immediately stumbling over the website upload tool.
Pin perhaps as Alpha2 - Reboot or on the Alpha 2 Community Resources
Browser download for those looking is on Safe Network and at https://github.com/maidsafe/safe_browser/releases/download/0.10.2/safe-browser-v0.10.2-linux-x64.zip
Edit: found web-hosting-manager at Release Email Example v0.4.3 and Web Hosting Example v0.4.4 ¡ maidsafe-archive/safe_examples ¡ GitHub works
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All went well and couldnât find a problem!.. though the downloads should be more obvious for noobs who want to try; so, every opportunity suggest those and assume nothing.
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Browser = https://github.com/maidsafe/safe_browser/releases/download/0.10.2/safe-browser-v0.10.2-linux-x64.zip
Web-hosting-manager = Release Email Example v0.4.3 and Web Hosting Example v0.4.4 ¡ maidsafe-archive/safe_examples ¡ GitHub
Only trivial suggestions then for usability of the web hosting manager
- There perhaps should be a âta-daâ when the publish succeeds, rather than just returning to the list of public ids
- Assume âwwwâ as public name for first website⌠âService Name - eg wwwâ as a prompt and a helpful bypass of having to state the default.
- The web-hosting-manager window size, is small relative to the screen available.
- Progress of the upload not apparent aside from the count on files; so, a large first file might be worrisome unnecessarily.
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One problem - the IP address reset doesnât seem to be working https://invite.maidsafe.net
[Choose Testnet] seems to not offer any options and I canât recall how IP reset worked before but thought that was the route to it.
Hey @davidpbrown, when you get to the https://invite.maidsafe.net/chooser.html page do you see the Alpha-2 option? If so clicking on this should allow you to access the page to update your registered IP
No, thatâs what I was expecting to see:
It was there originally just coming to change it that itâs not an option to move through to confirm new IP.
Looks like you have noscripts enabled
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Not that⌠scripts for that domain were enabled and even without the addon enabled, for a time I was getting the same. Yet⌠it seems to be working again; a couple of switches of IP and the invite appears as normalâŚso donât know what that wasâŚ
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Hello,
I now also get this error with the web-hosting-manager v0.4.4.
I didnât get it the last time I tried, but that was probably before I made a WebID with the PoC WebID manager app.
So I guess that the WebID causes the error and I need a newer verstion of the Web-hosting-manager?