FYI for some of your readers -- if you want to know at least vaguely what's up with LJ at any given time, read status; if the journal's down, try http://status.livejournal.org -- that will at least document site suckiness within a few hours of what's going on. That and lj_maintenance will give you a decent picture of planned and unplanned downtime. (And Wednesday nights seem to have routine stuff going on regularly, too.)

I got into volunteering for LJ because I wanted to know the minute LJ started to suck and why it was happening. I'm glad I did.

(I'm surfing around and playing linkball, and it's amazing the communication power we have here.)