Yup we are having issues with the BEE1 network since people are not mining on BEE1 and we are putting in hash power to get the network going on BEE1 for confirmations.
Please be patience.
I opened mine (also empty) and it synced fine with 3 active connections.
This is what I have in my bee1 beecoin.conf:
addnode=204.12.230.98
addnode=115.28.200.22
addnode=149.210.166.111
addnode=50.31.240.238
addnode=116.17.76.154
addnode=119.125.74.62
addnode=223.62.181.60
addnode=183.37.11.57
addnode=192.241.215.76
addnode=137.116.228.241
addnode=178.22.50.210
addnode=93.188.163.198
addnode=223.62.181.60
addnode=107.170.22.138
addnode=89.137.177.116
addnode=95.215.97.247
addnode=59.37.164.129
addnode=118.251.202.84
addnode=222.242.142.130
addnode=118.251.202.84
addnode=36.80.15.51
addnode=14.215.209.101
Maybe you can try adding that to your beecoin.conf.
Will keep mine open if it helps.