There seems to be a regional network issue affecting approximately 20% of Chat users at the moment. We have no control over these outside networks so all we can ask is that you be patient and try logging in again soon.

Looking into the connectivity issues to F-List at the moment.

Still investigating the root cause, but taking this chance to roll out some security fixes on our servers.

Working to get everything back online as soon as possible. Apologies for the continued delays.

Bringing the site and Chat back up now. If you can't log into Chat right away, please be patient.

The cause of the outage was a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) directed at one of our servers. We opted to take the entire site down temporarily instead of leaving it up half-broken.

To those having issues connecting to or staying connected to Chat, at the moment, we're on it. In the meantime, please be patient.

Reminder: Please be patient. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Just a moment. Yeah, we're not happy either.

Chat is temporarily offline. Thank you for your continued patience.

Chat is online, with some additional protection in place. If you can't reconnect to Chat right away, please give it a few minutes and try again.

We already covered this last night, but just as a reminder: We know that Chat isn't as reliable as it usually is. Please be patient with it. It's under additional protection after two DDOS attacks in the same week.

The site and Chat are now back up. Yes, there was another attack.

Big apology from me personally for taking this long to give you all acknowledgment of the attack.

Trust us, we know and are working on it. The site is under attack again - unrelated to our other recent incidents.

The site may be offline for a bit. In the meantime, please be patient. Yeah, it sucks but we’re doing everything we can to stop it and get the site and Chat back online. It bears repeating: Tonight’s attack has nothing to do with the recent string of attacks. Totally unrelated.

The site and Chat are now back online. Thank you for your patience tonight.

The service we use to deliver email is experiencing some issues this morning. If you’re trying to create an account or file a ticket, mail delivery will be significantly delayed.