I am having the same, flipping problem! But so are most minecraft users! Apparently the whole minecraft thing is either shut down or experiencing some problems. It may be related to something that keeps popping up on minecraft.net that says: "Reset the net." It's about how people are tired of the NSA watching us on the internet and people are standin up to it. So maybe it is related to that. Anywho, I am as annoyed as you are, and I happen to know a GREAT factions server: play.gotpvp.com
Well, I hope that this helped, somehow!


   -Signed, the Narwhal republic!
(We are here to help!)

happend to me today to :(

minecraft is working now :)

It's happening to me too. My sister was the first in our house to notice. She came up to me while I was watching tv and said "I need help, I'm trying to get onto MassacreCraft, and something's wrong!" so I came up to the laptop (which she was playing on) and she brought me to the laptop, all that was on the screen was "Connection Lost
Failed to login: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL
session.minecraft.net/game/joinserver.jsp?user=FBL&sessionId=6231.393645396341972&serverId=672241e3898091d50e9dfe758c4af8fdc11c5884".

And that's exactly word for word what was on the screen.

So I supposed that Java was just not updated. But turned out she already updated Java. And the same thing happened on PC and laptop! Turns out it's yet ANOTHER problem with the servers down & VICE VERSA! To be honest, I'm sick of these problems, not that I'm complaining and saying that Minecraft is capable of never getting these things at all, but I really wanna go on servers!

Its STILL not working for me

same thing happened to me :L

its annoying

Thanks.
Please tell me when they are back and btw do you know a good factions server?

Yeah thats happening to me

Minecraft server connections has been down but will be back up soon

Hope it comes back on soon