Not that I have anything earth-shaking to say, but I tried to log onto
the chat and the system replied that "the connection was refused when
attempting to contact irc2.penguinpowered.ca/"

It has always worked fine before; I just use the little client right in
the browser.

Then yesterday it returned that error, and I tried it a couple of times
an hour or two apart with the same result.

Then just now, the same.

Is it broken or something?