Why might the Silk Road be closed?

[Tim The Enchanter]

This is my first day here, I'm hoping to learn a lot. The first thing I noticed when using Tor was that silk road is closed. Am I using Tor wrong? Or does the server just close sometimes?

[saqwe]

you can also try the tor-button

[MJW]

This is my first day here, I'm hoping to learn a lot. The first thing I noticed when using Tor was that silk road is closed. Am I using Tor wrong? Or does the server just close sometimes?

.onion websites sometimes can be unstable; I've encountered Silk Road offline constantly
If you can connect to other .onion websites, it's a server-side problem