the gab team did release a statement, either last night or early this morning, that since the uptick in traffic, en-masse, there was going to be connection intermittency due to HW upgrades and installations.
deploying new HW should incur only very brief downtimes... I know because I do this shit for a living. It should be back in under 10 min if they are just deploying capacity. If it is not back in 60 min then we know that it was at the very least some form of migration and not just a deployment.
...and it is back
I also do this shit for a living and I know a bit about their infra. Enough to know that all of the usual expectations are out the window due to the things they've had to do to make themselves resilient to DoS and deplatforming.
Could be increasing capacity, could be DoS, could be something else. Best to just go with what they said for now.
I agree... and in retrospect they were only down very briefly
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