I had the same problem when I tried to go through the steps in the sticky post. I found a guide that should help. I'm going through it now myself. SWTORista has made a video on YouTube with the steps for Steam, and with the gear on the SWTOR launcher (mine is missing the gear too so I'm using the steps on Steam).

Yep, that worked for me too. -- Stand stoic -- Raise fist -- close eyes and meditate That allowed me to select the light side choice and not fight the monster. =)

Oddly enough, I can access the mobile version of Twitter, just not the "main" twitter web site. https://mobile.twitter.com/swtor

I was able to login earlier this morning about 9am or so. I'm also on the east coast of the USA, in Florida.

I was going to check their Twitter account, but it looks like Twitter is down too. https://twitter.com/swtor

No, I"d be more upset over a 6 hour wait than a 1 hour wait. Everyone would. =)

I'm in Florida, USA. I can't login either. I am also getting the spinning circle after putting in my password and the security key.

I want to know the name of the mount in the screenshot. I haven't seen it in the Cartel market yet.

Looks we have an update on their Twitter account. They're aware of the issue to their web pages and the servers and are investigating. https://twitter.com/SWTOR/status/1296073606871617538?s=20

Just a note that I live in southwest Florida. I have logged into the game before with no issues. Today at about 8am eastern I logged in. Then a few minutes later I got disconnected. This has repeated 2 other times over the next 35 minutes. I get a ton of lag that goes over 100,000 ms before I get knocked back to the server selection screen... which is empty of servers. I have been closing the game, waiting a few minutes and then logging back in, only to get knocked off a few minutes later. Looking at the forums on Steam I am not the only person who keeps getting knocked off.