[PakG1]

No need to make it harder for them by voting it to the top of a major tech news site...

Curious what you mean by this? Could you clarify? My initial impression of this made me think that you're saying that we shouldn't draw attention to a service provider's downtime.

[ChrisAnn]

By adding to the requests to the status page. As commented below, we've slowed it right down!

I don't have a site on Heroku, but I clicked through anyway - it's on the top of Hacker News, so must be worth looking at.

[PakG1]

Hehe, but in all fairness, what matters in any infrastructure failure is information spread, not information uptime. :)