The Staged Demise of Fringe Blogs?

Yesterday, Danwei reported that three of China’s popular fringe blogs (Massage Milk, Milk Pig & Pro State in Flames) had mysteriously disappeared bearing mysterious messages such as:

Due to unavoidable reasons with which everyone is familiar, this blog is temporarily closed.

Yet today, amidst cries of censorship, Massage Milk returns to reveal that it was all a joke:

I like to play pranks…so it’s not what you think, or what the foreign press thinks.

Hats off to Massage Milk for a wonderful April Fools-esque joke.

Milk Pig, hosted on the same server as Massage Milk, has similarly returned. However the third blog, Pro State in Flames remains out of action with a technical error message – will it return like the others?

UPDATE:

• Danwei reports on the joke, and their sources say that Pro State in Flames will return shortly as well.
• The BBC complains about censorship.
• EastSouthNorthWest mentions one blog, 连岳的第八大洲, that is irate about Massage Milk being so self-important.