Parachat responded: "The disconnections and inability to connect would be consequences of the ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against our company. Although our existing infrastructure will seamlessly defend and mitigate the vast majority of attacks so their impact is negligible to our customers and end users (as you are accustomed), this attack has had a different vector. We are actively working on bolstering defenses. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience the attack has caused." We'll see what that means tonight.