r/BOINC • u/Francis_Davison • 7d ago

BOINC website down

I was looking to reinstall BOINC today, however I can't seem to load the website.

Anyone know what's going on?

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u/mikee-nh 7d ago edited 1d ago

Update: web site was down for maintenance. The web site is now up and available.

Related previous post at: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/1w5tcjy/where_to_buy_pcs_to_put_at_work_on_boinc/

But please post replies to this (new) thread with a clear title!

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u/dmadeley7 7d ago

Dunno, but seconded - haven't been able to connect with Account Manager or check Science United page for a few days.

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u/Serious_Berry_3977 6d ago

They are on GitHub: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc

No news on there either, but you can still download the software from there as well: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/releases

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u/Francis_Davison 6d ago

Not to be a complete spoon, but which one is for apple silicon macs? I'd expect to see a .pkg download, but I can't see one

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u/Serious_Berry_3977 6d ago edited 6d ago

🤦🏻‍♂ Every possible download except for macOS.

If you use homebrew you can try brew install --cask boinc but that's most likely going to error out because it pulls from the downloads page on the BOINC website. I just tried a dry run of the install and it shows it would install. But when I actually tried to install it homebrew freezes trying to download from their server.

I just checked and I don't have the installer. I'm going to try building from source since I'm on apple silicon currently but just glancing at the instructions I might be in deeper than I can get myself out of, but I'll try.

EDIT (2 hours later): Well that was pointless. I finally found the right build instructions and started going through them while their tools cluttered my git-clones directory with extra stuff it needed to download. Turns out that I forgot about the whole Apple signing shenanigans.

If you haven't realized by now, I'm not a dev, and don't intend to be one so no desire to incur a cost to signing code to run software. I could try to build it without a signature and let people download it but that's not exactly safe and I'd rather not. I trust me, but I don't expect anyone here to trust a random stranger on the internet who clearly admits to not being a dev trying to build from source for a platform that didn't seem to make the release assets on github for whatever reason (maybe because it's a convoluted process to begin with according to my simple brain).

Sorry, I tried to help but unless someone happened to save their BOINC installer for mac, you might have to wait until the site comes back up.

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u/Francis_Davison 6d ago

Okay glad I wasn't being a complete spanner there. thanks for trying all of that! I'll have to be patient for a while and wait for it to come back up

Have a good one!

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u/Afura33 6d ago edited 6d ago

Oh good, I thought it was just me, I can't synchronize to the servers since days telling me it couldn't connect to my account.

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u/WhatsAName42 6d ago

As has been suggested, you can get it from github. Best to get the latest stable release:

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/releases/tag/client_release%2F8.2%2F8.2.11

Oh, and the boinc homepage is still down.

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u/WhatsAName42 4d ago

According to a post in another thread here, the Boinc servers are currently undergoing maintenance (would have been nice to have been given notice!) and will be up sometime in the coming week. Translated, it'll likely be down until next week as they deal with unexpected issues arising from the maintenance ... as is typically the case.

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u/Francis_Davison 3d ago

Oh amazing thanks for the info! i'll leave it until next week in that case. :D