If you want to read it, I put together my educated guesses/speculations (ramblings that is) about why I think Redbird is dead; pros and cons of possible reasons for it being dead or not, along with a picture of the error you get as of Oct 12th:
http://goo.gl/ZpvzQnIf you read the entire article you’ll see the irony about me just commenting now about it.
Needless to say, I sure do hope that I’m wrong about reading the events of the day. We can all benefit from that, from me being wrong about this and Redbird continuing to live on.
Nothing lasts forever in the MS hobby though, so if it indeed died, let's be grateful for all the free or near-free travel and money it provided us with. And onto the next thing.