crossposting: not so much with the posting part

Okay, so....

When did crossposting to LJ stop working exactly? As I just realized that my last entry didn't, and then I tried again and it didn't, then I checked my flist and the last time anyone's crosspost went through that I can see is July 24th circa 10:00 PM CST.

I was going to ask why it stopped working but apparently LJ was downish for a bit, so. This is weird. Anyone?

Manual crosspost to LJ as soon as this is posted.

This is a manual crosspost: Entry at LJ.

Comments

[dodificus]

I haven't been able to get a livejournal page to load for *days*, which is, like, a billion years in internet time. Livejournal who?

[seperis]

I've been okay--mostly--in loading, but I was wondering why some comms have been surprisingly not so much posting.

Do you remember on our flists, though, are all the dates supposed to be in our time zone? For some reason, I thought it worked like comments and translated everyone into your time zone.

[dodificus]

I thought the dates stayed relevant to the time zone of the person who posted it? I've never really paid attention though, so I could be horribly wrong.

[seperis]

See, no idea, until this happened I never thought about it. I know it always has on comms, though, so that makes sense.

[settiai]

It's been about twenty-five hours now. My last cross-post was at 2:30am EST yesterday, and LiveJournal went down completely about ten minutes after that. It's been up and down since then, with comments not going through half the time, and I haven't been able to get crossposting to work since the problems started up.

[lilacsigil]

At least a day for crossposts working - I'm trying to post a newsletter to LJ right now (not crossposted) and it's being VERY FRUSTRATING.

[niqaeli]

I've got a post from giandujakiss on my droll indicating that she still can't post to LJ, so it's not just you.

My wild-assed suspicion is that they've been hit by a DDoS and aren't accepting client traffic (or anything similar) to limit the load so the site can at least serve pages. I have no proof of this, as I couldn't find much of any information on the outage (status.livejournal.org indicated only that they were aware of and working on site loading problems, last I checked). But if you're being able to post manually through the web-site but not cross-post, it's at least a plausible explanation of the downtime.

Alternatively, their data center may have caught fire, who even knows.

[synecdochic]

From what I've been hearing (not anything straight from source, just secondhand stuff), it's a data center outage. If LJ isn't up to the crossposter at the time of crosspost, the crosspost will fail.

[niqaeli]

So, it did catch fire. Well, you know, I guess I was close? *g*

[seperis]

*bites lip* Okay, for the record, when I'm mad at LJ and say "KILL IT WITH FIRE" I wasn't pulling a Becket to rid myself of turbulent priests.

[synecdochic]

Life is so unpleasant when you suddenly find yourself in an Anouilh play.

[alwayswondered]

I can't even load LJ. It hasn't worked at all for me in 26ish hours.

[seekergeek]

LJ's been down for over 24 hours, as far as I can tell. It recently came up just long enough for me to sign in and then promptly crashed again.

[marilla_pm67]

Lj has been down for the last 24hours or so ... and even now, it's slow and wonky ... It didn't crosspost from me either...

Sam

[cat_77]

I have not been able to access a single LJ page since late Sunday night. Very frustrating. Was going to ask how you managed it for a manual crosspost, but apparently you are a rarity if these comments are anything to go by.

[kayloulee]

I haven't been able to get anywhere with it for about a day and a half. I had been using downforeveryoneorjustme.com to see if it was actually up or down at any given time, but Down Right Now is much better for this sort of long-term downtime because it graphs uptime versus downtime for the previous 24 hours.

[rheanna]

I haven't been able to get LJ to load at all since Monday at about 8am GMT.

[beachlass]

I can get LJ to load on my blackberry tablet, and someone on rwitter said she can get it to work on her pbone, but not laptop. Weirdness.

[nagasvoice]

I haven't been able to access lj since Sunday night, at all. This is forever in intarwebz time.

[lferion]

I'm another on the no access since late Sunday/very early Monday list. Highly aggravating.

[ranlynn]

LJ is currently undergoing a DDoS attack of apparantly massive purportions.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/hacker-attacks-paralyze-livejournal/441237.html