Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#1

Post by anitroves » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:06 AM UTC

I am currently working on re-developing AniTroves.com and I wanna know What to show on main screen. I have configured an under construction screen but some Devs say I should give 503 error to Google but it will take some time for development to complete so I think it might not be a good idea.

Any Sugestions?

Re: Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#2

Post by willendirson » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC

Your under construction page at https:/anitroves.com is well developed and for a long term only dev plan you should probably give 200 ok response to google as 503 response for more than 2 weeks can damage your website rankings and reputation.

Re: Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#3

Post by anitroves » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:18 AM UTC

willendirson wrote: post #2

Your under construction page at https:/anitroves.com is well developed and for a long term only dev plan you should probably give 200 ok response to google as 503 response for more than 2 weeks can damage your website rankings and reputation.

Yeah that was original plan and that's what is configured right now

Re: Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#4

Post by willendirson » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:19 AM UTC

anitroves wrote: post #3

willendirson wrote: post #2

Your under construction page at https:/anitroves.com is well developed and for a long term only dev plan you should probably give 200 ok response to google as 503 response for more than 2 weeks can damage your website rankings and reputation.

Yeah that was original plan and that's what is configured right now

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Re: Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#5

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC

anitroves wrote: post #3

willendirson wrote: post #2

Your under construction page at https:/anitroves.com is well developed and for a long term only dev plan you should probably give 200 ok response to google as 503 response for more than 2 weeks can damage your website rankings and reputation.

Yeah that was original plan and that's what is configured right now

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Re: Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#6

Post by alisaeed11234 » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

anitroves wrote: post #3

willendirson wrote: post #2

Your under construction page at https:/anitroves.com is well developed and for a long term only dev plan you should probably give 200 ok response to google as 503 response for more than 2 weeks can damage your website rankings and reputation.

Yeah that was original plan and that's what is configured right now

though your site have not much pages indexed on https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=anitroves&sourc...

Re: Ask HN: What is best thing to do if you are gonna rebuilt your website

#7

Post by anitroves » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:52 AM UTC

alisaeed11234 wrote: post #6

anitroves wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that was original plan and that's what is configured right now

though your site have not much pages indexed on https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=anitroves&sourc...

Yeah we went through some troubles we are fixing them as well