Electrum suddenly not working - network status red

[Ecurb123]

Hello,

I have been using electrum for awhile now with no problems at all but suddenly now it's not working, say "not connected". I almost seem to remember reading somewhere that I should update the client, but I didn't see anything on their website about that. I'm on version 1.9.5 running on ubuntu 14.04. Or now that I write this maybe it quit working when I updated to ubuntu 14.04? Any ideas?

[Apheration]

I am having the same problem using the latest windows version, 1.9.8 since this morning.  Tried unchecking auto-connect and manually selecting different servers to connect to but that did not work either.

Update: I rechecked Auto-connect, and now it's syncing again. Hooray!

[Ecurb123]

ok mine says Synchronizing now too. I'm glad it looks like it's doing something but I don't like the idea of a wallet that isn't working full time. Could this be a problem with the servers? 

[Ecurb123]

update: I restarted it and now it's working.

[dabura667]

ok mine says Synchronizing now too. I'm glad it looks like it's doing something but I don't like the idea of a wallet that isn't working full time. Could this be a problem with the servers? 

The servers are all run by volunteers using open source code that was made non-profit out of the good will of people's hearts.

You probably connected to a server that was having difficulties, maybe their cat slept on the escape key or something.

If you have connection issues, try reconnecting, try connecting to a different server, etc.

Maybe in the future, there will be some sort of business running official professionally maintained servers for Electrum. Until then, you're basically relying on a group of volunteers. (then of course... the same can be said for the Bitcoin Core, multibit, or ANY bitcoin wallet...)

[Ecurb123]

ok mine says Synchronizing now too. I'm glad it looks like it's doing something but I don't like the idea of a wallet that isn't working full time. Could this be a problem with the servers? 

The servers are all run by volunteers using open source code that was made non-profit out of the good will of people's hearts.

You probably connected to a server that was having difficulties, maybe their cat slept on the escape key or something.

If you have connection issues, try reconnecting, try connecting to a different server, etc.

Maybe in the future, there will be some sort of business running official professionally maintained servers for Electrum. Until then, you're basically relying on a group of volunteers. (then of course... the same can be said for the Bitcoin Core, multibit, or ANY bitcoin wallet...)

Thanks for the explanation, I wasn't aware.