AppleInsider Staff
As an unusually long maintenance for Apple's developer portal continues, the company recently posted a message on the service's holding page saying developer memberships set to expire during the period will be extended.
Reported earlier on Friday, Apple noted on its Dev Center that the website would be undergoing extended maintenance on Friday, though the portal has now been inaccessible to developers for well over a day.
The company has updated its "We'll be back soon" message, now saying the maintenance is "taking longer than expected." In response, Apple has extended developer memberships set to expire during the downtime.
AppleInsider first received word that the iOS and OS X Dev Centers were down on Thursday, effectively blocking access to developer tools made available through the site.
Apple urges developers who have questions regarding their account to contact dev support.
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Seems like they ought to extend everybody's membership for the length of the outage. If the service came back up at 3am Monday morning and my membership expired at 4, I'd be a little frustrated.
This is highly unusual. I wonder if they have been hacked, and are currently cleaning the nasties out...
Apple is astonishingly bad at updating internet applications.
Many other companies' IT departments are able to swap working versions on the fly, and to quickly fall back to the old version if necessary.
Apple, instead, has server down time... even for their store.
Must be a big upgrade. :) Or they corrupted it and have to restore from backup.
Apple Developer Connection is horribly outdated. It still has portions of the UI going back to the year 2000.