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[Akshay]

Hello!

When I tried to access the regular App Inventor Page at http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/, I got a "The server is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later!" for several days.

After analyzing many factors, I narrowed this issue to Adbocker. Whenever I was asked to approve App Inventor to access my Basic Info Permissions, I chose a new Gmail Account and since that time, i'll get this error.

Finally, I found this issue to be caused by an ad blocking plugin on Chrome.

If you are struck with this error, and if it's the first time you are using App Inventor or Logging in from a new Gmail Account, and have an ad blocking software enabled, try disabling it first, and try to load the page. Although strange, this error occurs when my Advertisement blocking Plugin blocked a Google Analytis resource (http://www.google-analytics.com/r/__utm.gif?.....), whitelisting it or disabling the ad blocker let me access App Inventor.

The strange thing here is that it only happens when you try to login with a new Google Account for the first time. Accounts that have accessed App Inventor had no issues in accessing the App Inventor Service.

Just making this post to let you aware of this.

Regards,

Akshay

[Scott Ferguson]

Thanks for letting the community know about this and how to resolve it :-)

Happy Inventing!

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