I agree with you on multiple points. But so you know for next time, there’s a general site that helps confirm outages—
Viewing post in itch.io outages notification
As somebody else here said, it’s easy to tell if the site is down. And I don’t need to go to another site to confirm it.
What sucks is having to manually come back every 10 minutes, then 30 minutes, then hours at a time to see if the site is back up. And even then, after it came back up the other day, images weren’t been served properly for hours afterwards meaning I couldn’t finish the post I was writing.
Apple’s developer site has a system status service you can access via this link. You can tell at a glance if there are issues anywhere. Itch would need such a detailed chart, but a few stoplights showing current status would be nice. And should be fairly easy to automate.
I agree a status page would be nice.
Is It Down Right Now has a field showing when the last reported outage is. I thought it was common sense— but likely not— that if a site was down within the past day, it’s a big risk trying to upload anything important to it. I forget to check, too. But it is reassuring to know that itch.io is looking stable before committing a bunch of processing time to it.
For me, a page that’s not associated with Facebook (Is It Down Right Now is, for commenting) would be most helpful.