Now they are showing this!

Investigating - An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site. We are looking into the cause. Apr 25, 2024 - 09:52 PDT

"many users" :-)

Better than the notice for the previous outage which said "Degraded performance" even though the site was inaccessible for a lot of people.

Seriously, I've stopped checking all these 'official' status pages and just check Twitter or HN for an accurate status.

I think for big corporations that the flip doesn’t switch on the status page until it is approved by legal and they get a “comms” message prepared. It isn’t as automatic as we’d like to think.