Spree Admin broken by alerts

Using an old version of Spree? Admin down right now? You're probably encountering an issue with the alert system.

In Spree, requests to the admin "phone home" to alerts.spreecommerce.com. Due to changes made to that domain in the last day requests to the admin now hang, never returning a response.

Fortunately, there's a quick workaround. Add the following to an initializer and restart your app servers. This will disable alerts entirely.

# config/initializers/spree.rb
Spree.config do |config|
  config.check_for_spree_alerts = false
end

I urge Spree Commerce to move this domain to a static, empty s3 bucket to avoid stores having issues.

This system was removed in Solidus shortly after the fork.