LiveJournal Targeted in Massive DDoS Attack

It hasn't been "working fine" for me since Monday. As of this morning, I can't even get the home page to load, much less read my friends-list, which is the only thing I've sometimes been able to do for days. So please stop saying it's working fine, because until all of us can get on, it's not working. Period.

* . They are using this as an excuse. They need to get their * in gear because they have PAYING customers. LJ has been having issues for months. This has nothing to do with hackers.

There seems to have problems since before this weeks total downage.
There is no edit capability.
When one tries to edit and then do "save entry" the response is:
500 Internal Server Error nginx

What are the chances LJ will really be back?

Dead LiveJournal

After frequent, repeated and predictable crashes of the LiveJournal (livejournal.com - LJ) - every time at the most heated and critical moments in the political life of Russia - one cannot longer consider this web resource as an "independent", and DDoS attacks on it as "accidental" or "vandal" acts of unknown hackers. The logic of the current illegitimate Russian regime suggests that such attacks have been actually, specifically and carefully organized by the ruling Putin's clique, and are not a trick of some unknown to us amateurs or "hackers".

The situation with the manageability and predictability of the LJ crashes should be explained by the fact that this blogging resource is provided first of all for the russion public and is almost completely under the control of the Kremlin and its secret services. Free and popular LiveJournal service secretly performs a special function: like so-called "honeypot", it attracts and catches critical opposition and political activists to this virtual trap, effectively blocking their activities. Thus, as soon as the public in Russia is at a critical moment ready to speak on any topical and important political event which can be associated by the government with the expected large wave of criticism and protests, just at the same moment the service of LiveJournal is no longer functioning normally, frequently crashes, is down, or not available via Internet, or writing new posts is impossible, or content pages of the most critical blogs are "mysteriously" manipulated or erased, etc.

Therefore, we must do stop to consider LJ as a Russian independent web site and its frequent falls as a result of random vandalism acts or as a result of "hacker" attacks. In fact, things are different: both the LJ and its "crashes" are being completely controlled by the Kremlin and the FSB secret service. Non-system opposition activists and critical bloggers urgently need to find a new appropriate blogging platform. They need to create a truly public internet resource instead of LJ - a new popular, independent and free blogging platform - first of all for russian opposition. Not the government institutes of the criminal Putin's regime, but the non-system opposition itself should provide sufficiant and appropriate security and administration of this new Internet resource to effectively protect it from expected attacks of pro-Kremlin provocateurs, real hackers and the secret services.