Ricochet is not, in fact, online

[themusicgod1]

The internet connection went out last night. Wifi connection, no connection past the router at first and eventually no connection even to the router. It was down for about 12 hours. Ricochet, however happily claimed the whole time that it was "Online". Clearly, it was not.

Desktop environment: wayland/gnome
Ubuntu: artful / 17.10
ricochet: 1.1.4-1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ricochet-im 1.1.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-25.29-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 19 11:11:29 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-18 (275 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
SourcePackage: ricochet-im
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-19 (91 days ago)