Rule 5. Locking.
Instance was down (user here), and now it's back up. But yeah, check if your area might have the domain blacklisted (someone relay this if OP cannot see)
I can see your comment. Glad it was temporary
Welcome back 
i believe that blahaj zone gets a lot of ddos attacks from assholes from all over the world, sadly.
i would recommend setting up a ddos protection tool, maybe anubis? unfortunately i'm not an expert about how to set this thing up. feddit.org uses it btw, so maybe the admins could assist each other with the setup?
Our admin's been pretty good about staying on top of it, all things considered (uptime roughly 99%). I'm sure they've already taken measures.
weirdly responds to pings
Some countries choose to block them, like what Saudi Arabia did.
Oof, it's not loading for me either. There was an issue several weeks ago. I wonder if they're having to do maintenance again?
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