You may have noticed the Bloglines Plumber appearing unexpectedly recently, generally in the evenings. That's the web page that we put up when we need to take the Bloglines site down. We try to avoid downtime whenever possible, and when it's necessary, we post advance notice here on the Bloglines blog. Unfortunately, we've recently been experiencing a corruption issue with several of our databases. When that happens, we need to take the site down and fix the database in question. No data is lost, but it does require downtime to fix, which is bad; we're just as addicted to Bloglines as you are. We're feverishly working to track down the problem, and we apologize for the inconvenience.