Does RPOL have a twitter presense?
Well, the thing is, to announce a site outage, you have to confirm it...and most of the time, if you can confirm it, you can do something about it. Jase said this last outage was due to an overabundance of old log files eating up all the disk space...once he found out about it, he fixed it.
If they know about the outages in advance, they announce them (but a lot of people don't read the forums in which they make those announcements.) But telling us about an outage after the fact is kind of redundant...we know, the site is down. We can't connect to it. So sending us to another website to find out if it's down or not seems a little pointless, to me.