Is it just me or is the chat down?

I refreshed for the EA conference and chat hasn't been up since. Help?

its broken

This is what happens when we can't call upon Dave in our time of need.

All of the top men are at E3

Chat was been mostly not working at all today during the events. Sometimes it will load but then only work for few minutes before it stops updating. If I refresh the page it is 20/80 vs loading/not loading chat at all.

Mac OSX 10.7.5
Chrome 27.0.1453.110

The EA conference has ended; I think they're intentionally keeping it down between conferences since the next one, Ubisoft, is in a little less than an hour.

EDIT: I redact my statement; it is back up.

EDIT 2: Never mind it is totally down for me again.

still having troubles? We did some tweaks and it seemed stable thru Ubi's conference (Sony may be a different beast tho).

@mrpibb: It was stable throughout Ubi

did it just die again for anyone else?

Dead over here.

Yeah, down again.

Big empty grey box here.

Chat is gone, dead. Gone.

Dead.

Dead for me as well...and no video either.

empty, and no video

The chat is constantly broken :|

Is the show going on?

Same. I've only been staring at my screen for 12 hours. I need more content.

dead here as well

0 watching, 0 chatting & no video

I also can't seem to get twitch.tv to load, dunno if that's in any way related.

Edit: twitch loaded, it's just super slow

Not yet.

We love you Giant Bomb. Just let us know you're there.

Patrick tweeted a few minutes ago that they are going to miss the 10pm show start time and more details to follow.

It says offline on Twitch. I'm going to say they aren't streaming right now.

If it is, then they have an audience of 0.

@funkasaurasrex: I'm on twitch but the stream is offline there as well.

so who's psyched for a 3 AM EST start time :P

No chat, no stream. Nada. :(

I'm so hyped up I can't sleep anyway!

PST son. PST.

Oh well, might as well go to work early then. Hopefully I'll have something to watch when I get home.

"We are addressing some substantial non-technical issues that are preventing us from broadcasting. More details to come."

Gersty's twittah.

Umm...guys?

haha. same here. but im still delusional, and think i'll get SOME sleep in...

Non-technical? That doesn't sound good. Hope there's no police involved and everyone is safe.

@JeffGerstmann: "We are addressing some substantial non-technical issues that are preventing us from broadcasting. More details to come."

Hope all is well out there.

@milkman said:

Umm...guys?

Well that became ominous.

Uh oh. Hope everyone's okay, I'm actually concerned now.

Downtown LA. 90% chance its traffic.

Someone forgot to buy the alcohol.

I'm hoping it is something of the "oh shit, we got locked out of our place" nature and not a "oh shit we need to hide this body" nature.

The GB crew has at least one person that would see a locked door as a very temporary issue.

@colonel_fury said:

@milkman said:

Umm...guys?

Well that became ominous.

Uhhh....I hope that is less fucking scary than it sounds...

FYI. Apparently the "reconnect to chat" link means "make chat go from semi broken to full on busted." Oh well.

The site, like every other game related site out there, is getting hit with almost unprecedented traffic, even by E3 standards. NeoGAF has been out all day, IGN has gone down a few times, as has Kotaku, Joystiq, and Polygon.

Jeff just informed the chat that their equipment got stolen, and that they're looking into their options. There may or may not be a stream tonight because of this. Keep an eye on staff twitter accounts, particularly Jeff's, for more details. This fucking blows.

Apparently they got robbed. Hopefully they had insurance. Either way the site will probobly be technically gimped until fucking Christmas

Fuck, that sucks. Hope they catch the losers that stole their stuff.