It's the result of a DDoS attack that's been going on since Sunday (http://status.livejournal.org/). And it's just been getting worse and worse. Apparently LJ has concluded it's a DDoS so strong that the backbone providers (Qwest and Verizon) couldn't stand the load, with an avg. traffic load of 6 gigabytes.
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Date: 2011-07-27 01:29 pm (UTC)Case in point! Why did you load my default icon LJ? Dumbass.
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Date: 2011-07-27 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-27 05:15 pm (UTC)