Chat servers are running horrible, barely playing and not getting past a week where I don’t lose connection, and it seems there is a lot of partial outages too (like some logis repping 5 ships but me only getting 2 requests for reps in the broadcasts, and someone else was having partial outages in local not seeing some specific messages).
But they are running, you should see local lists etc. At least sometimes where it is meant to be show (not in WH / Pochven)..
If you speak Russian they may be onto something over here: Cannot connect to chat service - all chats aren't working
I tried figure out what was going on the other day but didn’t really get it. Quite sure though they are having the full outage problem and not just partials / lost connection to chat - reconnecting to chat errors.
If that is the case, using a VPN will only work when you select an exit country where the traffic is not filtered. Try fx an exit in London.
(Contrary to popular CCP / troll beliefs, I do not read Russian).