So, Livejournal seems to be down

[andrewducker]

Anyone got any idea what's going on with it? status.livejournal.com has nothing, and their Twitter account aint talking either.

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[cyprinella]

Someone recently postulated that it's the remnants of or return of the DDoS attack that's been going on for a couple of days, but I've got nothing firm on that.

[matgb]

Yup :-(

lj_maintenance: More updates about the DDoS

We're still dealing with the DDoS. Turns out we upset our attackers and they started hitting us 10x harder

[flick]

Don't know, but it's kinda annoying.

Maybe someone who got spammed by them decided to get their own back?

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Their Facebook page was talking about some malicious DDOS something or other attack. Either that or someone tripped over the cord....

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

They have a Facebook page? Something ironic there methinks.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Status.livejournal.com was reporting "technical issues" for me (with some very odd timestamps, some of which were apparently from the future if I did the time zone correction properly) for pretty much the whole day.

-- Steve wouldn't be surprised about a series of DDOS, given that they've finally cleaned house on the spam accounts and are likely facing spammer retribution.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

LJ has been down/having issues all day.

[andrewducker]

I know - that's why I asked the question!

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

For some of us, "day" = "year" in regard to Issues. I.e., people have requested me to "Friend" them, but LJ doesn't allow my browser to do it. (Yes, it's an antiquated browser, but then... I'm an antiquated person.) Grumpf.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You're using Lynx?

[fub.livejournal.com]

I always check status.livejournal.ORG -- because that's hosted elsewhere. "Technical difficulties", probably DDOS.

Frank's been at the cables again...

[hravan.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was getting that up til an hour and a half or so ago too. Seems to be going full steam ahead now though.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

LiveJournal has undergone the most powerful DDoS-attack in its history