Deactivate motd and cloudmsg

has some issues (synchronous requests, increases startup time on
mobiles)

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/gui.js b/gui.js
index 4e08991..31f2aee 100644
--- a/gui.js
+++ b/gui.js
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ sb, CommentMorph*/
 
 // Global stuff ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-modules.gui = '2013-March-19';
+modules.gui = '2013-March-20';
 
 // Declarations
 
@@ -206,8 +206,11 @@ IDE_Morph.prototype.openIn = function (world) {
     }
 
     // dynamic notifications from non-source text files
+    // has some issues, commented out for now
+    /*
     this.cloudMsg = getURL('http://snap.berkeley.edu/cloudmsg.txt');
     motd = getURL('http://snap.berkeley.edu/motd.txt');
+    */
     if (motd) {
         this.inform('Snap!', motd);
     }
diff --git a/history.txt b/history.txt
index 8b81c99..930a8db 100755
--- a/history.txt
+++ b/history.txt
@@ -1538,4 +1538,8 @@ ______
 * Store, GUI, Blocks: Scaling support for Comments and serialization/deserialization
 * GUI: motd support: On startup Snap! looks for http://snap.berkeley.edu/motd.txt, if it exists it is shown in a dialog box
 * GUI: fix for #run: URL switch
-* GUI: cloudmsg support: cloud related notifications can be put into http://snap.berkeley.edu/cloudmsg.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+* GUI: cloudmsg support: cloud related notifications can be put into http://snap.berkeley.edu/cloudmsg.txt
+
+130320
+------
+* GUI: deactivated motd and cloudmsg mechanism for now (has some issues)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 8fe15c1..1634cef 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ artefacts: projects, blocks, sprites
 
 URL options: #run: #open: #lang: #signup
 
-dynamic content:
+dynamic content (currently deactivated):
 	http://snap.berkeley.edu/cloudmsg.txt
 	http://snap.berkeley.edu/motd.txt