In case anyone was wondering (and happens to read this)

[elisi]

From http://status.livejournal.org/

We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you!

Status Updated: 2:29 pm GMT (Wednesday, July 27)

ETA: My LJ flist works fine, I just can't post anything. Not even comments. :(

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

One of the DW maintenance people was saying in the comments on one of their posts that it's generally considered a bad idea to acknowledge a DDoS attack until one has effective counter-measures in place as it's basically giving attention to the attackers as well as letting them know that their attack is working. In this case, though, things got well past the stage where there was any point in putting up a good front.

So, yeah, they're obviously couching their language there, but there's some legitimate reason to be doing so, not just ass-covering.