Haha it definitely came as a surprise. It was really cool to see how you can still access the blockchain perfectly fine from any other tool, like chainBB, Busy.org, Steemfollower, etc. That's the beauty of a decentralized blockchain! So while shady folk can try to DDOS Steemit.com they can't take down the STEEM blockchain =D
Cheers that it's working again tho, lol.
indeed my friend my friends was very wary about there accounts so i told them you can use busy.org instead until they come back up.
:-)