is anyone having issues with poloniex connections?

the bot never connects for the past week or so, it just gives an error saying "The connection with the exchange timed out. Arming gunbot again"

I cant connect with versions 5.0.5, 5.0.4, 5.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.0.4, 3.3, 3.3.2, 3.2, all of them are connected to the same key

Version 1 works, which is connected to a previous API key, as does manual JSON requests.
I have already pm'ed Gunthar and am waiting for his response, but maybe someone else has had this issue and solved it somehow?