Well Origin Is Down Again!

I couldn't access the gallery, because I had the same trouble with being off line. I was able to play my game offline. I was disappointed I could not use the gallery though.

The gallery is currently crashing the game.. If it doesn't crash, it freezes and has to be force quit.

Edit: Apparently its not just the gallery. I was only able to play my game for a minute before it froze. Loaded it up again, and again, it froze after only a minute. It's just unplayable.

Edit again: I *may* have found a solution (for me anyway).
When I looked at the latest crash report for the game, there was line after line of "EAWebkit.so" preceded by numbers, like it was trying and failing to do something endlessly. So I found the Webkit folder in Sims 4 and deleted everything in it. Then I loaded up my game, made sure I was offline, all online features were disabled, and played. No crash or lag.

I couldn't play my game online since October 5th. Could only play it offline. I so missed being able to save it the gallery not just my library.

My game is fine now. I was able to play for hours last night. This morning I turned the online features back on and tried the gallery with no problems at all. Interestingly, the initial loading screen where the plumbob would come up and freeze for several seconds since a couple patches ago, now loads quickly again.
I don't know if what worked for me will be of any help to anyone else, but if you want to try it... look in your Sims 4 folder and see if there is a folder called EAWebkit. If there is, delete it.

I was finally able to save my new households today. The gallery is very sluggish.