The status of LiveJournal:

At 8:46 am EST on Monday, November 26th, Admin dormando writes :

We are coding like madmen in an attempt to hammer out speed related problems with the new database system, and speeding up every database query we make. There is now a second DB server up with the new DB system. It seems to be doing very well.

LiveJournal is currently being slow. I see lots, and lots of people hitting the reload button far more than they should. This does not help, as I am sorry to say. If the site will not load for you, please only try once every fifteen minutes.

Here is a pretty graph of our current goals.