Downdetector said basically everything was down today (including Google, AWS, etc.) but they aren't affected. This makes me NOT trust downdetector.

That's definitely your prerogative. Internet Insights uses various techniques to analyze billions of metrics gathered daily from hundreds of thousands of vantage points around the Internet to detect outages in minutes, while providing (in the paid product) corroborating evidence based on that collected telemetry to support its conclusions. Crowdsourcing is subject to the vagaries of crowds.

Yes, just to confirm, it seems that our platform is getting hammered at the moment and it's causing the page to take a long time to load or intermittently load. We are looking into it.

It is back up now.

There will be a more detailed message when we finish the SII on our status page at the link I previously provided, but the short version is we took way more traffic than normal to our platform and the related workers were running out of memory.

seems smart to link to the most popular platform by default. there's other share links at the bottom for the less popular ones

The public outage map is primarily a marketing page, because customers receive deeper insights in-product. Given that most people discuss outages live/up-to-the-minute on Twitter, that is why its where we default to sharing.

Still can. AWS Status pages are still terrible. See HN for the outage a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838