[mauro_oto]

If you use Slack, you can subscribe to the Github Status RSS feed from the DM page for slackbot, or even your own username by using:

/feed subscribe https://status.github.com/messages.rss

I got a "Major service outage" message about 30 minutes ago.

[amichal]

i learned this trick as well and now our "hosting-alerts" channel has RSS feeds from github,aws,google,heroku,ubuntu(security list) and quite a few more

statuspage.io sites have rss/atom feeds in the 'subscribe' options as well.

RSS seems to live on here