Majority of LiveJournal users could not see their friend list on August 12, seeing instead Varnish Error 503 Service Unavailable notification.

The error might possibly be caused by the failure of http faster Varnish, which is used by web administrators to accelerate access to resources with heavy content. LiveJournal support service confirmed receipt of alerts from users and said that technical specialists are working to fix the problem, Lenta.ru reported.