I often face with the problem unavalability of the forum. Sometimes it works, but user avatars are not rendered and I see problems in the web inspector.
I just wanted to make sure these are known issues and someone is looking into fixing them.
I think status.gnome.org covers h/w infrastructure status of the machine hosting the service, like machine-reboot / network-down etc. This issue is a software error in the GNOME discourse web application.
Even if status.gnome.org monitors the web service, the service should be down, exactly at the time status.gnome.org polls the service ( which happens every N minutes ). The current failure is a HTTP 500 error, and not a “Cannot connect to discourse.gnome.org” error. Pretty sure that the later is monitored for, not sure about the former.