Just wanted to follow up on this. We suffered an attack that led to a substantial percentage of failed page loads on the free CDN, and we’ve already put in place some mitigations and improvements in our workflow to block bad actors of this sort much more quickly in the future, and more will be forthcoming over coming days.
We also have plans to improve our communications since we realize they were suboptimal during this outage. More details in this other thread on our plans there: