I don’t know what to connect this with, but when I tried to go to my LiveJournal today, where announcements of all the posts from this site of mine are posted, my home laptop sadly twisted the loading indicator and said “Unable to connect to a remote server.” (Upd. Everything started working again after about 3 hours).

I read LJ very rarely, but even that is “rare” - much more often than any other social networks. That’s why I was still worried. And the problems with under-reposting of articles are somehow unnecessary for me... It’s useful to check.

The best service to check if my site is working is http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/. It checks quickly and efficiently, so you can immediately understand whether it doesn’t work for everyone, or just for you. In my case, it showed that everything is fine with livejournal, and these are some problems I have.

Unfortunately, it often happens that not only one site (like LJ), but also an entire segment of the Internet does not work - in this case, it may turn out that some of the verification services will also not open. So I'll give you a couple more:

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ - it was just like LiveJournal that it gave an error.

http://ismysiteworking.com/ - this one worked, and by the way, it provides much more detailed information. It also turned out that it didn’t work only for me.

Of our verification services, I liked http://2ip.ru/site-availability/ and http://ping-admin.ru/free_test/ the most. Well, actually, they also showed that LiveJournal was not true. By the way, if we’re talking about checking the speed of sites and their operation under load, then as for a personal site, I already wrote about this separately, and there is an ancient one, separately dedicated to this.

Now I had to figure out whether LJ only works from one browser, only from my computer, or only from my provider.

I usually work in Opera 12, so I launched Chrome and checked it and it doesn’t open either. The option with a browser glitch is no longer available.

I launched the browser on a mobile phone connected via Wi-Fi and it also doesn’t open. Consequently, the option of a computer glitch also disappeared (otherwise, you know, it happens that some nasty thing is written into the hosts unnoticed).

Then I turned off wi-fi on my mobile phone, turned on MTS 3G, and again tried to open my mirror in livejournal. Everything has opened up. If it didn’t open, I would try it on a Beeline SIM card. But here everything is already clear, which means it’s not even the AFK system that’s faulty, but only MGTS’s GPON. In order to make sure that this is where the problem lies, I launched cmd and gave the command tracert chewriter.livejournal.com - and I got the logical result:

tracert chewriter.livejournal.com

Route tracing to chewriter.livejournal.com
with a maximum number of jumps of 30:

1 2 ms 5 ms 5 ms 192.168.1.1
2 15 ms 6 ms 6 ms ppp91-xx-xxx-x.pppoe.mtu-net.ru
3 8 ms 15 ms 9 ms 10.254.xx.xx
4 11 ms 13 ms 9 ms 10.109.xx.xx
5 9 ms 10 ms 13 ms ss-cr04-be12.51.msk.stream-internet.net
6 9 ms 14 ms 14 ms a197-cr04-be5.77.msk.stream-internet.net
7 7 ms 11 ms 7 ms 212.188.55.30
8 20 ms 8 ms 7 ms a197-cr03-xe-0-0-0.3.msk.stream-internet.net
9 10 ms 8 ms 6 ms a197-cr03-ge-1-1-0.5.msk.stream-internet.net
10 * * * The timeout period for the request has been exceeded.
11 * * * Request timeout exceeded.
12-30 * * The timeout period for the request has been exceeded.

Tracing is complete.

Well, here’s the plug - on MGTS-ovsky 212.188.54.185

Well, I don’t know what this is connected with. If it had been connected with the arrest of Yevtushenkov, it would not have worked in all structures of AFK Sistema, including MTS. But everything worked for me via their SIM card via 3G - which means it has nothing to do with it. Just like the information broadcast yesterday across all media about the shutdown of the Russian segment of the Internet - firstly for the same reason, and secondly - I think that if they tested this, then Facebook and Twitter would not open - but they work great . So if we discard all conspiracy theories, then there are only two options:

• The most likely reason is that something went wrong on the router in the chain along which tracing occurs from some sites on the Internet
• LiveJournal again published something indecent, and MGTS, without much understanding, blocked not the necessary page, but the entire livejournal.com.

But. Typically, when blocking, a plug of this type is hung:

In my case, livejournal simply does not open, without any stubs.

There is another option - something went wrong in their traffic recognition system, which they were just about to launch in mid-September, but this is somehow completely incredible - torrents have nothing to do with LiveJournal. Therefore, I am inclined to the first option - the forwarding table in some Cisco system simply failed.

So for now we go to LiveJournal or through a mobile phone (which is not very kosher) - or in Opera we turn on the “Opera Turbo” mode:

Bad news. Once again, the skeptics who advised changing LiveJournal to a stand-alone blog turned out to be right. As you know, at the end of December 2016, LiveJournal servers moved to Russia. Anton Nosik then clearly explained what practical consequences this would have for ordinary users: “The idea of ​​dragging LiveJournal servers to Russia, “closer to users,” is not new: it first visited my friend Andrew Paulson in October 2006, when the company<суп>entered into an agreement with the platform owners to support the Cyrillic segment. At that time, it took me 5 minutes to explain to a naive American friend the legal consequences and threats of such a step for authors, commentators and readers of LiveJournal. So the platform remained where it was, on the West Coast of the United States, and existed there for the next 10 years.

During this period, at least a thousand people in Russia were jailed for posts, remarks, likes, shares, retweets and cross-posts on social networks. but none of the indictments were based on user data obtained by security forces from the administration of the LiveJournal Inc service in the state of California. In my own criminal case, there is correspondence between detectives and the very administration, which contains a polite but categorical refusal to provide my personal data, since the request did not contain any legal grounds for their disclosure. There are no more grounds for such refusals. Since LiveJournal is now physically hosted in Russia, all confidential information of service users is available to domestic intelligence services in real time, in accordance with the requirements of SORM-2 and SORM-3 for Russian sites."

In mid-February, Alexey Korolev, who previously worked as deputy director of broadcasting on the propaganda television channel RT, became editor-in-chief of LiveJournal.

Finally, today, after an hour-long break, all LJ users were asked in an ultimatum form to sign a new agreement, the full text of which is posted. The following points are particularly noteworthy:

1.1. <...>Only individuals over 14 years of age have the right to use the Service.

This, as I understand it, is a response to the participation of schoolchildren in recent protests in Moscow and the regions?

5.1. Technical data transmitted to the Service by the User’s software, as well as other data transmitted by the User to the Service, will be available to the Administration and can be used by the latter at its discretion in ways not prohibited by law, including for targeting advertising shown to the User.

That is, any of our data can be used anywhere.

6.1.1. The Administration reserves the right to delete the Account and Blog if access to the Blog is not provided by the User for more than 6 months in a row or was limited during the same period due to a violation of the Agreement.

That is, if you, for example, God forbid, get sick or go on a long business trip or internship in another country, where you need to be completely immersed in your activity and have no time for social networks, the resource administration will delete your blog in six months, even if you wrote it ten or more years.

6.3. The Administration draws the User’s attention to the fact that in accordance with Part 3 of Art. 10.1 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 149-FZ, the Administration is obliged, regardless of the will of the User, to store and provide, upon legal requests of authorized bodies:

6.3.1. information about the facts of reception, transmission, delivery and (or) processing of voice information, written text, images, sounds, video or other electronic messages from Users and information about the Users who performed the listed actions - within one year from the date of completion of such actions;

That is, any cop or bureaucrat will be provided with any information about you upon request - all your secret posts, personal messages, etc. and so on.

7.4. The Administration draws the User's attention to the fact that if the Blog (Blog page) is accessed by more than three thousand Internet users during the day, the User will be subject to the requirements of Art. 10.2 Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 149-FZ.

That is, if earlier the administration of the resource resisted this idiotic law and even hid the number of subscribers of those bloggers whose number exceeded 2500, now all more or less readable bloggers will be automatically included in the proscription list.

9. By posting Content, the User:

9.1.3. Undertakes to mark Content that is not permissible under the legislation of the Russian Federation for distribution among children (from 0 to 18 years old) as material for adults using the functionality of the Service.

Can you imagine that now every post with profanity or any hints of eroticism or violence (this can be understood very broadly) must be labeled: 18+. This will certainly apply to posts mentioning alcohol and smoking, etc. The widest scope for arbitrariness and censorship opens up. Online misulins will find sedition in almost any post. Let me remind you that Ms. Mizulina, who moved from a parliamentary seat to a senatorial seat, for example, two years ago put an 18+ label on the films “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” because they contain scenes of violence.

9.2. The user is prohibited from:

That is, if you promote Putin, the ONF and United Russia, then this is in the order of things, but if you write a post in support of Navalny or agitate to come to an opposition rally, then this will be considered “political propaganda” and you will be banned.

Placing advertisements, thereby making money on the blog, is now also prohibited. Perhaps this will clear the top LiveJournal of debris a little, but it will kill interest in it among those few who have recently tried to work on this site.

10.5. The Administration has the right to limit the User's access to any of the functions of the Service, as well as limit or prohibit the use of the API, posting links to third-party resources, and take other actions aimed at protecting the Service from the influence of factors that pose, actually or potentially, a threat to Users, normal operation Service and Administration policy. The Administration implements these measures at its own discretion and is not responsible for the possible negative consequences of such measures for the User or third parties.

10.6. The Administration has the right, at its discretion and without prior notice to the User, to supplement, reduce or otherwise change the functionality of the Service and the procedure for its provision.

12. Advertising.
12.1. Unless otherwise specifically established by a separate agreement between the User and the Administration, the Administration may, without additional notice and without any compensation to the User, place advertising on the Service, including Blog/Community pages.
12.2. The Administration has the right to change the method, type and quantity of advertising placed on the Service at any time.
12.3. The User’s participation in promotions and events advertised on the Service, as well as the User’s purchase of goods, works or services advertised on the Service, gives rise to rights and obligations exclusively between the User and the person selling the relevant product, work, services or conducting the promotion or event.
12.4. The placement of advertising content on the Service by the User (the promise to carry out such placement) does not entail any obligations for the Administration.
12.5. The Administration has the right to send information regarding the Service, as well as advertisements of third parties, to the User at the email addresses specified by him.

That is, you will write a blog, and you will be bombarded with advertising and spam of any quality and volume, which will be everywhere, including your mailbox.

You know, friends, when I read all this, I was simply blown away - I don’t even know how to express it more culturally. In January, I responded to the forecast of SMM analysts regarding the degradation of LiveJournal in 2017-2018: “Livejournal will finally lose its status as a TOP blogging platform. A serious decline in popularity, a further outflow of authors to other platforms.” But then I didn’t think that the killing of the resource would happen so quickly. And here we go, the last nail was hammered into the LiveJournal coffin today. However, the skeptics who buried LiveJournal and promoted Facebook should not be too triumphant, since it is obvious that after the murder of LiveJournal, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other similar services in Russia will also not exist for long.

If the date or time of an entry is incorrect, your computer may be set to the wrong date or time. Other causes include disabling JavaScript, autocomplete in your browser, or incorrect time value errors.

All these conditions must be fulfilled for journal or community to appear in Ratings. When all the settings are adjusted, the journal or community will appear in Ratings only after their next remeasurement.

Please note that there are restrictions on participants number in every Rating of and . This means a journal can participate in Ratings but be absent in a certain type depending on current values.

Most likely, this happened because Protection from driving the numbers up has been activated. This system prevents certain users from artificially driving the numbers up and thus promoting in Ratings. If this system reacts to a certain journal/community/entry, it is automatically excluded from one of the Ratings type. They may appear in Ratings again next time if the system does not count them suspicious.

Moreover, an entry, a journal or a community may be excluded from Ratings by LiveJournal administration if there is a suspicion that you have conciously manipulated Ratings. All mischievous actions aimed at gaining in the ranking (such as artificial audience attraction, using bots and so on) are considered manipulating.

On Wednesday morning, the popular online diary service “Live Journal” returned. Representatives of the management company of the SUP resource refused to comment on the situation, saying only that we may be talking about the consequences of cyber attacks. At the moment, the company’s specialists are looking into the reasons for the site’s downfall.

Over the past week, LiveJournal has already been subject to hacker attacks twice - on March 30 and April 4. The first time the Livejournal.com website did not load at all for 24 hours. The second DDoS attack occurred on Monday and lasted almost 10 hours - the platform returned to work only after midnight. According to the head of Livejournal Russia, Svetlana Ivannikova, “this is happening for the first time in the history of LiveJournal.”

“Yesterday they wrote in the news that LiveJournal valiantly defeated a hacker attack. So I see. In short, nothing opens for me again (I’m not even sure that this post will be published),” writes blogger xaep.

“As soon as I started a diary on LiveJournal, people started posting it every single day. Is this a curse or providence?” - asks Yasnovidyashii

“During these days, while LiveJournal was lying, I developed a nervous tic,” writes user tatianka-t. “What was most upsetting was that some of my friends were posting, and quite calmly, and I could only respond to comments, and even then only through "Once again I wish those who are causing this to kill themselves against the wall for good."

At the same time, some users note that LiveJournal worked for them even during hacker attacks. “By the way, I didn’t notice the DDoS at all; LJ always worked great for me,” reports diagrun. “My LiveJournal didn’t work for almost the whole day yesterday, and today I had big problems for half a day. So the main attacks took place on April 4 and 5. Yes, I noticed that the problems with LiveJournal were selective: my friend was looking at my LiveJournal in Fredline, but I couldn’t open it. Bloggers can go to Facebook and Twitter,” writes abpopa1917.

"What a heated discussion of the latest attacks on LiveJournal in LiveJournal! All shades of emotions from righteous anger to political hysteria. But I can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong. And it doesn’t leave me because, firstly, there is only one source of information “Jewish soup, secondly, the information is incomplete and contradictory, thirdly, apart from speculation that tickles the pride of bloggers, I have not yet read anything intelligible about the source and reasons for these attacks,” notes blogger spbfox.

Bloggers are also discussing where they will have to leave LiveJournal if hacker attacks do not stop. “In connection with the latest events around LiveJournal, its crashes and freezes, some friends began talking about moving to other sites. What, in fact, the organizers of the DDoS attack are trying to do is to destroy the existing community of users,” dennism is sure.

“I’ve been getting refusals since the very morning: comments are not sent, the mode of new posts is faulty, it doesn’t open on the first try. I am finishing this message after a 20-minute pause, when there were continuous refusals in everything. At the same time, the rest of the Internet is working perfectly. I would like to find another platform, preferably not based here. I didn’t like the social networks available here. There are forums, but you can’t create your own mini-community in them like a nesting doll. It’s unpleasant, to put it mildly,” writes rosa-de- lux.

“I’m also against running away from LiveJournal,” agrees pompidur. “I’ve tried many platforms on social networks, including Facebook. LiveJournal, in my opinion, is the most convenient and adequate platform for communicating and writing posts. And all these troubles will only have to endure, as the parents endure of a child who has gone off the rails in his adolescence. But they love him no less than before, right?”

Currently, about four million accounts are registered in the Cyrillic segment of LiveJournal, and the site’s monthly audience exceeds 20 million people.