Is that better or worse than stripe who updates their status page saying something is wrong all of the time and then just changes it back without noting any problem in the history? I get alerts on them 4-5x/week and only maybe one of those winds up as a colored entry in the history.

...and sure enough, shortly after writing this it was 'down' for 10 minutes and came back up with the status page saying nothing about it.

Seems that it is automatically generated, though, because it's now "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" all over.

Has been done now. https://status.github.com/messages.