Don't post "X is down" messages. Shortly you will be wrong, as is true in this case.
Yes, I considered that, but it’s been over 30 mins down (and still is for me from the East Coast). Anyway, this made me think that a service status page should perhaps be on a different subdomain handled by different DNS...
Regardless, my hacker opinion is that HN is not the place for this sort of posting. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is useful for this sort of thing.