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They link to https://status.github.com which doesn't work (you have to go to http://status.github.com). Bit of egg on their face, sadly.

The status site now supports SSL and auto-redirects regular HTTP traffic to HTTPs.

The blog post has been updated to go to http://status.github.com, my apologies about that.

Do you know if there are plans to make it available on https://status.github.com as well?

Yes.

Yeah, I have the HTTPS Everywhere Chrome extension, which (almost) always works but breaks here. Made it look like the status page was down.