Github repo loading failure - container already present on machine?

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Dear All,

we have recently started using Binder for a particle physics outreach project, basically to prepare a Masterclass targeting classes of about 20 people tops. It used to work flawlessly, using the logo included in the ReadMe.txt of the project Masterclass, but haven’t been able to load it for the past few days, with output:

Launching server...
Server requested
2024-08-06T07:51:57.384950Z [Normal] Successfully assigned gesis/jupyter-siragoni-2dcosmicpiano-2dlhl28ugz to spko-css-app03
2024-08-06T07:51:58Z [Normal] Container image "quay.io/jupyterhub/k8s-network-tools:3.3.7" already present on machine
2024-08-06T07:51:58Z [Normal] Created container block-cloud-metadata
2024-08-06T07:51:58Z [Normal] Started container block-cloud-metadata
2024-08-06T07:51:59Z [Normal] Pulling image "gesiscss/binder-r2d-g5b5b759-siragoni-2dcosmicpiano-7e22eb:9b6019513eb0beeb6244cf442a26b824f7772b65"
Launch attempt 1 failed, retrying...
Server requested
2024-08-06T07:57:08.603624Z [Normal] Successfully assigned gesis/jupyter-siragoni-2dcosmicpiano-2d3kro57t4 to spko-css-app03
2024-08-06T07:57:09Z [Normal] Container image "quay.io/jupyterhub/k8s-network-tools:3.3.7" already present on machine
2024-08-06T07:57:09Z [Normal] Created container block-cloud-metadata
2024-08-06T07:57:10Z [Normal] Started container block-cloud-metadata
2024-08-06T07:57:10Z [Normal] Pulling image "gesiscss/binder-r2d-g5b5b759-siragoni-2dcosmicpiano-7e22eb:9b6019513eb0beeb6244cf442a26b824f7772b65"
Launch attempt 2 failed, retrying...

Is it possible that a previous load is interfering whenever we try to load it up again?
Thanks in advance for any tips

Simone

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Dear @siragoni,

mybinder.org is running with reducing capacity, please read the announcement.

Regarding your error, it is related with Large number of pending pods for GESIS server · Issue #2995 · jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy · GitHub.

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Thanks a lot for your reply, I was not aware.
It used to work fantastic until a few days ago, but I guess we need to think about different options for the future then, especially if numerous people will start asking for us to host this Masterclass…
Thanks a lot in the meantime!