Hearing it may have been planned as they increase server capacity. We shall see.
Good point. I've heard the same thing. Think about what happened when FR migrated not long ago; it was down for at least a couple of days, IIRC.
In the early hours of this morning, Gab down down for maintenance. When I got up around 11 a.m., it was back up, but for the past two days, it’s been slow loading, which is most likely caused by the amount of traffic that has increased to the site.