Playground is throwing an out of cycles message when deploying hello canister. This usually means someone needs to top it up.

Dfinity should.adjust the Quickstart documentation accordingly to reflect this change. Thanks for the response Quint.

It’s now fixed. The reason was that recently cycles prices increased and the required cycles to install a canister rose higher than what we previously seeded borrowed canisters with. We configured a higher amount and it works again [image] quint: DFN not maintaining it anymore: Moving from the …

Is Motoko Playground out of cycles?

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