What happened yesterday:

The Win Client uses following Online Wallets:

https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/index.html
https://wallet.burst-team.us:8126/index.html
https://wallet.burst-team.us:8127/index.html
https://wallet.burst-team.us:8128/index.html

If one wallet goes down, is unreachable, it switches to the next. During the update of 8125 from 1.2.6 to 1.2.7 the DB made problems and we started a resync and took the wallet out of the proxy for https://wallet.burst-team.us . Problem is that we didn't made it unreachable by direct link and people stranded at the 8125 online wallet with their win client in the year 2014.

The online wallets are very user and newbie friendly but are actually against the whole idea of a decentralized trust-less transaction system. The online wallets are a centralized service which is a single point of failure. When it fails, you have to wait till someone else fixes it for you.

So there was no forking of the network at all.

My personal recommendation: Have a local instance ready or running. Also add the list of online wallets to your bookmarks...