What does the community think of when it is appropriate to use ChipMixer? What is the best way to reduce risk while taking all parties on the other end of the chain, who may not be focusing on decentralization and privacy? Does the team have official responses to these questions?
You can use ChipMixer anyway you want, but my suggestion is to try and avoid using them in combination with big centralized exchanges.
There are even cases of people sending coins to Binance and Coinbase without any issues, but I heard cases of frozen and lost coins, so it can be a risk.
If you are using coins from ChipMixer for direct payment or for trading with someone p2p you should be just fine with almost everything.
is it the site is down?
It's down for me as well.
I suspect that is because of constant ddos attacks, but I am sure the are working to fix this so just be patient and wait for official CM reply.