Same here. My first major complaint since early November... They must have lost a bunch of servers.. Guess its time to spend those millions on a new server farm.
Now I'm being told to re-attempt in 3 mins +???? Geez, now instead of auto logging in, i have to use pscyhic powers to find out if IB is back up and I don't overdo my login attempts. Nice.
I got a timeout error trying to load the status page (just the inner frame where it gives the german holiday hours). How hard would it be for an IB employee to add the standard "We have a HUGE outage affecting all our customers, who are now completely screwed unless they are smart enough to have a backup broker. We have NO clue when we will fix it, the guy who can fix it is out to lunch" message?