It's not been off and on at all for me; it's just been consistently off for over a day now on my end with no ups whatsoever, "problem loading page", no freaky goat, no other kind of internal LJ specific 404, just spinny spinny... time out: "problem loading page".

If other Britfriends have been getting a merely intermittent LJ rather than permabroked LJ then I have no idea whateverthehell is going on.