I don't believe that anyone from this forum. I think that all mixer users here are already familiar with the withdrawal problem on WW.
You got stupid lagecy media like
Yahoo that still lists whirlwind at the top of the mixers lists referring to it as
a leading Bitcoin mixer that adheres to a strict no-logs policy, ensuring that once the mixing process is completed, all transaction information is permanently erased.
So more victims are likely to fall for the scam, however, since the clear net server is down, people coming from the likes of Yahoo will probably end up seeing this topic, although many of them will be careless, just copy the onion link and go.
The worst part about Yahoo is that they don't even have a page or email address to report errors or fraudulent content. It'll probably take a lawsuit to force them to place a report button on their pages.
Speaking of this, I think the probability of "something bad has happened to the person who runs WW rather than this being a scam" has now increased, I mean if this was a straight-out scam, why wouldn't they fix the clear net, and made a small transfer from the multisig address to make things look 'normal' so they can scam more people?, I don't think a scammer will have enough and decide they don't want to scam anymore -- after all, they could have taken down the main server too if they want to stop scamming!.
There is something strange about this mixer, as I said, it doesn't really matter much to the users who lost funds, because whether the person behind the mixer was a scammer or a dead man -- the results are the same, but knowing for sure what actually happened would be good.
It is probable, but if you're going to be away from keyboard for long periods of time, then
you should not run a service which handles people's money (unless it's something like an online store with a no-refund policy).