SR1 would be down for a couple days at a time at most, not weeks. We are on almost 1 week now. This is ridiculous. Then IF you do get the site up you are going to immediately close for a week? What exactly is the site good for then? TM (who I was crucifying a week ago) dealt with these same attacks and got them under control in about 24 hours. Are they more competent? Even if TM are scammers (which more and more I'm thinking is not the case) why are they more competent? You need to fend off this attack TODAY and not close for xmas if you don't want to spend 4 months trying to bring people back after the holidays (because their patience will finally have been lost and moved on to a site that may or may not be a scam).
Oh come on, not you as well DrMDMA.
There were a few times where SR1 it was down for at least a week. November last year and April this year being the most significant.
SR will come back stronger as it has done before. Do not forgot SR2 came out a month after SR1 was closed and from the start DPR has said there is still a lot of features to be implemented while also fighting back attackers.
The site is closed over Christmas to make it better and stronger than before so there is good reason for it to be closed . I would rather come back to a stronger, better site than before and i can guarantee there will be plenty of people coming back instead of going to other sites. This is frustrating for everyone but the wise will be patient instead of going to other markets