Livejournal down?

[crowdog66]

Livejournal appears to be totally down. No pages are loading; I'm not even getting an error message. They just... keep failing to load. And my latest attempt to crosspost an entry resulted in:

Failed to crosspost entry to crowdog66@LiveJournal: Failed to connect to http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc.

I wonder what they're up to?

I doubt it's anything good.

Comments

[silverjackal]

A quick answer to the question of whether or not Livejournal is down can always be found here. I am curious as to the cause, in the a purely Schadenfreude sense. It could be a routine "down" (that happens, after all), a "down" because of something Livejournal has done, or a "down" because of something someone else has done, such as a hack from Facebook. We'll see. :D

[crowdog66]

or a "down" because of something someone else has done, such as a hack from Facebook.

And that, my friends, is called KARMA. (If it's indeed the case.)

;)

[fierynotes]

It's awful, I'm sure, but I'd laugh my ass off if that's what happened.

[crowdog66]

It's the old fox/scorpion story: if you let one on your back, even if stinging you is going to result in the scorpion's death as well... the scorpion WILL still sting you.

Awful, yes, but I'd be grinning like an idiot Schadenfreude ho!

[silverjackal]

I seriously doubt it, that quickly, but one never knows. It doesn't make sense that the site would be down completely if they were just rolling back the FB/Twitter integration, though, so either something else is awry somewhere like they're actually implementing a complete merge with Faceborg, which will make me laugh and laugh if that's the case ("Mine is and evil laugh! HaHa!"/Firefly geekery), or they've pissed of some /b/tards or sommat.

Edited to correct a random bracket failure. ;)