I can get to the forum and the practice page just fine, but if I go to skritter.com I get a server timeout. This has been happening consistently for about ten minutes now.

James

Same here. Server error happening both under Firefox and Google Chrome. Haven't tried others.

I had a problem accessing .com from china earlier, but it was fine through a VPN so I figured it was a China issue... .cn is working fine here.

It's working now.

I got a server timeout this morning on skritter.com, refreshing a few times did not help. I went to skritter.cn and that seems to work (although I have not tried to practice yet).

We've been having some issues with Google's App Engine servers deciding to zombie out sometimes, and although we've worked on a few ways to control the outbreaks, there are still some requests that die. While practicing, unless there are a lot of them, they shouldn't be noticed beyond a little loading slowness, but the rest of the site may requires some refreshes to get through to a non-zombie server instance until the zombie starves to death.