Until around the beginning of last week, the pipeline from gw to ffxiah had actually been going strong for an unusually long time! It came up again during the late evening last night (NA), but looks like it's gone back down again since then.
Re: "maintenance mode" I think the time that Rooks donates to keeping things maintained around here is really valuable! I'm not sure how he prefers to be notified when something breaks (whether that's via thread, PM, or something else), but this particular issue is something that has eventually been resolved every time it's happened so far.