The official thread is for news and information. however, it doesn't update quickly. If it wasn't by this post, i wouldn't notices that fileize is down.
You would've noticed fileize is down the second you got on the site, threads are just a secondary source of information in this scenario.
I'm fairly sure Jeff has got it under control, so we shouldn't over-react.
Actually, it should be an established rule for posting new threads about fileize; All that happens on them is "tl;dr, oh noes, fileize is down! blah blah, derp".
It's an unecessary amount of spam and wasted space on the forums.
Hopefully Jeff takes that into consideration.