From Europe, especially during the lunch break hours, HN is down again and again. For instance as of the past 30 minutes, I see the above message more often than the expected pages. It's been like that also yesterday, the day before that.

I understand that this happens often based on searching, but I don't remember having it that often in the past.

Honest question: what happens, why do we get that message, especially during these times? Is there something that is going on the the early AM hours in the US? Maintenance work maybe?

Edit based on some comments below:

  - could it be this has to do with being logged in or not? I will try to stay less often logged in.
  - dang wrote: "but for those who are comfortable logging in and out: HN gets a lot faster if you log out, and it will reduce the load on the server if you do" (source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611)
  - another reason could be rate limits, especially if not logged in
  - rozenmd is monitoring HN, that looks awesome: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
  - "Did you post something negative about Google/DEI? Or maybe just upvote it? Or skim one of those threads. There you go. Time out for you." <---- this is particularly disturbing IF TRUE