fix: remove discontinued StakeCraft snapshot service - #800
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StakeCraft discontinued its Astar and Shiden archive snapshot service in
August 2026 following the failure of its treasury proposals in governance.
The snapshots page pointed node operators at all4nodes.io, which no longer
serves the snapshot service, and snapshots.stakecraft.com no longer resolves.
- Drop the vendor-specific intro and the "Stakecraft snapshots usage"
heading, and replace the undefined {STAKECRAFT_WEBSITE_SNAPSHOT}
placeholder with a generic {SNAPSHOT_URL}.
- Add a warning admonition stating that no snapshot provider is currently
available, and reframe the procedure around restoring a snapshot you
produced yourself.
- Keep the sync-from-scratch guidance and the relay chain warp sync
section, which remain correct and are still linked from four pages.
- Fix a malformed link in node-maintenance.md, which rendered as bold text
followed by a literal parenthesis instead of a link to the snapshot page.
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Description
StakeCraft discontinued its Astar and Shiden archive snapshot service in August 2026, following the failure of its treasury proposals in governance (forum thread).
The snapshots page was built entirely around that service, so it currently sends node operators to a dead endpoint:
https://all4nodes.io/, the URL in the docs, returns HTTP 200 but is now a 753-byte placeholder page with no mention of Astar, Shiden, or snapshots.https://snapshots.stakecraft.com/no longer resolves in DNS.I checked for a drop-in replacement before rewriting and there is none: RadiumBlock covers Polkadot, Kusama, Polymesh, Phala, Moonbeam and Moonriver but not Astar or Shiden, and snapshots.polkadot.io covers relay chains and system parachains only. The page is therefore generalized rather than repointed.
Changes to
docs/build/nodes/snapshots.md:## Stakecraft snapshots usageheading.{STAKECRAFT_WEBSITE_SNAPSHOT}placeholder, which was never defined anywhere, with a generic{SNAPSHOT_URL}.The page is kept rather than deleted, because four pages link to it (
collator/secure_setup_guide/building_node.md,node-maintenance.md,archive-node/docker.md,archive-node/binary.md) and the remaining guidance is independently useful.Also included, since it is in the same section of the same page set:
docs/build/nodes/node-maintenance.md— the link to the snapshot page was missing its square brackets, so it rendered as bold text followed by a literal parenthesis instead of a link.Note: the
snapshotreferences indocs/use/how-to-guides/layer-1/governance/offchain-governance.mdare governance voting-power snapshots on OpenSquare, unrelated to node database snapshots. No change needed there.Type of Change
Linked Issue
None. This is a bug fix, not a new integration.
Checklist
yarn build)<Figure>component with absolute paths (no images changed)Verification
yarn buildexits 0. Checked in the generated HTML rather than assumed:alert--warningclass; no literal:::warningleaks into the output. Title uses the bracket syntax established by fix: repair broken admonitions caused by Docusaurus 3.10.1 upgrade #798.node-maintenancenow emits<a href="/docs/build/nodes/snapshots"><strong>snapshot page</strong></a>.EVM/infra/explorers,nodes/collator/requirements,nodes/collator/secure_setup_guide/launch_services,nodes/collator/secure_setup_guide/secure_connectionandwasm/contract_environment/explorers. Both files in this PR are absent from that list, so those warnings are pre-existing and unrelated.