There were connection problems.Maintenance takes longer, backing up wouldn't bring it down. Seemed like it was from heavy load or something, and considering BLF doesn't exactly have a large community, it's probably an attack.
a guy joined the plug.dj earlier with his name being something about blockland going down on october 31, 2014 but it's november 1ststill sense something fishy
I think it's that 4chan guy
v21 confirmed
I made a full database backup before applying an smf patch. Database is huge so it takes a few minutes.