/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask (though it is otaku culture right?), but whatever.

I regularly watch live streams on Nico Nico and since today I can't connect to the site. I checked on a downornot site and it says "down for everyone". One guy in the comments says that 2 subsites do work (they do for me and I'm still logged in), another says that with a JP IP it works.
I used Nicoviewer to check out if it loads videos and it does.

Meaning:
not maintenance related, working for Japanese people/with proxy = IP block for the West?

Official twitter, facebook didn't come up with anything, neither did google. Nothing on 4chan or reddit either.
Does anyone know anything about this issue? I wouldn't mind if it were maintenance or some temporary thing or even DDOS shit... but if they really started IP blocking that would annoy me -__-

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