Is it possible to temporarily replace the studio site with a ‘Site Under Construction’ or ‘Under Maintenance’ page? I would like to do this whenever I’m working on my Pickaxe tools, making the site temporarily unavailable for users.
The best way to do this is to make the site “invite only”. That way, users won’t see any of your content at all, and only users that you invite will be able to use the tool. Of course users that already have accounts will be able to keep using it, but you can always remove those users from the studio panel.
That’s actually our intention behind the invite only section.
But that is my point: I do not want existing users to be able to continue chatting, but they should also see the “site under maintenance” page. Because if I only set the page to invite only, people who are paying will get fed up because they will think that there is a technical issue and won’t know that it is actually on purpose because of maintenance work. So do you have any solution for that or not?
If people already have accounts, and certainly if they are paying, you cannot take the site down for them. That’s very intentional, there are plenty of issues with paying for something and getting nothing that could arise.
If you really need this functionality, I’d recommend removing all your bots from your studio.