I'm getting the regular home page now - I assume ?downtime was affixed to the URL by the submitter in order to post it, or is there supposed to be a downtime me

I'm getting the regular home page now - I assume ?downtime was affixed to the URL by the submitter in order to post it, or is there supposed to be a downtime message? Edit: Like I wrote, I'm having no problem accessing the site presently, but yesterday it was certainly hard.