I am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this. If I want to go

I am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this. If I want to go to reddit, I go. If it's down, I notice this easily, and I say to myself "I guess it's down", and then I move on with my life. If I don't visit the site while it is down, do I need to know that it is down? No. I do not. If I (attempt to) visit the site while it is down, the very nature of attempting to visit a site that is down will inform me that the site is down. Under no circumstances do I need, or want, a HN post, or a post on any other site, telling me of such a thing. Later in-depth analyses of what caused the outage are welcome, of course, because those contain information that I will not have already obtained on my own.