Thanks Francesco! Confirmed on my end.

The site is back online. We are working on a long-term fix for the intermittent availability.

The only reason is to help do the changes I described but if you would like to stay on top of things instead that works too.

Can you share an exact url? I've been browsing the site with Safari and it seems to work well currently.

I can't replicate this issue on Chrome or Firefox, seems to be Safari only if this still happens. Can anyone with Safari confirm?

I’d rather stay in charge of translation project, including which languages we keep or not… If es and es_ES are identical, then indeed the later should have been removed for a long time.

es and es_ES are identical, I propose we remove es_ES

Somethings I noticed while testing UI translations:

@Bastien Montagne (mont29) Can I get added to Translations ?

I created two patches; one for the blender source and the other for the add-on to remove mo files from the translations repository.

Because we want the git repo (which has to be checked out by everybody that wants to build Blender) to be as small as possible. And a tremendous amount of changes in PO files, from week to week, are actually in the 'source' comments (line number changes). those info are mandatory for translation work, but useless if you only want to generate the MOs binaries...

In T68588#752075, @Bastien Montagne (mont29) wrote:

Note that you cannot really get rid of the svn repo for Blender UI translations, as those stored in GIT are fully stripped to be as small as possible, they are essentially useless as working translation material...

What is the reason for this? Is this to reduce the size of the generated Machine Object files? If so cant this be consider a part of the build process?

user registration - possible to use phabricator user database? Or some other way to keep these in sync?

In T68588#752509, @Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) wrote:

[..] translation review [..]

In my opinion, there are three requirements for new translators:

In a discussion with @zdy (NGENNGT) in #docs on blender.chat one issue with the manual translations is the lack of quality of translations due to translators need to know proper RST formatting to translate po files.
Because moving to such a system that is online, translators will not be building docs locally and there is concern that the amount of formatting errors would increase.

@Gabriel Gazzán (gab3d) Thank you for the response, part of my goal here is to get feedback from current translators.

Note that you cannot really get rid of the svn repo for Blender UI translations, as those stored in GIT are fully stripped to be as small as possible, they are essentially useless as working translation material...

What's the scope of this? Everything on the blender.org domain (store, cloud, dev wiki, ect...), something in between or just the Blender UI and Manual (for now)?

Hi @Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) ,
I'm the translator of the UI into Spanish (one of the few languages that has been consistently maintained throughout these years), I've handed it alone since 2011, and a couple of times people tried to jump onboard to help, but unfortunately they ultimately never did any significant contribution, for different reasons I think.
I understand what you are looking for with these changes, and it could be a good thing, if done properly.

This is now fixed.

This appears to be now fixed on https://blender.org.

Did you try clearing your browser cache? Could be that it tried once to connect while the server had some issue or was offline, and somehow cached the 'bad answer' or something…

Thanks, it should have the correct link on https://www.blender.org/download/ now.

It still behaves bizarre. Other bookmarks from my browser-topbar work fine, but https://developer.blender.org/ behaves as if this was a forbidden expression. The addon "Noscript" refuses to offer settings as well. Seems to be a security setting on my browser side. But i thought you should know about possible conflicts. To report a bug, i now follow the link from [www.blender.org/support/] (no prefilled system data) to [developer.blender.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/]. Cumbersome but working.

Could you try again? I just tried again here and it worked fine. Maybe it was a temporary downtime in the server.
That said that button should indeed bring you to the developer.blender.org website.