Still seeing the error tonight:
$ pijul clone https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { kind: Io(Error { repr: Os { code: 111, message: "Connection refused" } }), url: Some("https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul/.pijul/patches/6onYJreK1H4o3WHBtyYczSdBoKLrkDyhuwwBaatCFPDLxBf9qjEE3TpTU7g2kSWtYiJjQUxs4Go2mmc948LDw1kS.gz") }', src/libcore/result.rs:906:4
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.
Using a latest version just installed via the command cargo install --force pijul tonight.