Hey there everyone. Hopefully you're all having a good 2016 so far.
I just wanted to keep you up to date on the the outage that happened yesterday. Long story short is that the power supply on the server failed around 9:45 AM EST and was back up around 1 PM EST. For some reason the backend for the site didn't come up with the server and I didn't notice until the evening at which point I started it up and made sure that it would start up properly from now on. So for that extra 9 hours of downtime I would like to sincerely apologize.
So with that said, I think it would be useful to have something external that we can post if there is an outage, issue or upcoming maintenance. Things like upcoming maintenance would still be posted here as a pinned announcement though so that as many people can see it as possible. My first thought would be a Twitter account that could report on status, could be tagged and could be used to retweet community events. Is this something people would be interested in?