I am for one not just complaining but trying to give a suggestion, for a later similar situation.
I am a new user, and did at first not know that I needed to go here for information about the server downtime. I just read the post about it on the main homepage, and was of course confused since the information was clearly not correct.

To avoid confusion or irritation they could update the information, put a link leading here, or write something about what they are going to do, and give no estimated time.

Since there is an estimated time on the homepage, it is easy to think that this will be somewhat close to that.

It's ok that the server is down
But maybe it would be a good idea to change the time estimate of 6-8 hours in the news section on the homepage 

And it could be good to have just some time estimate or nice just hear something about what is happening..