Thanks, Dallas, for sharing the reasoning behind the change from email notifications to dreamhoststatus.com and RSS.
For me, the current set-up is fine. I grab the "whole" feed and that works for me, though if the posts ever became too many to quickly skim, I would probably only grab "outages".
I think one possible disadvantage to having all the "sub-categories" is that, God forbid, someone forget to assign a post to one of the relevant catagories (and many posts properly belong to many categories), a user relying on only the "omitted" category's feed would complain that they didn't see it. That said, though I only generally use the "whole feed", having it the way you do lets a user tailor it to the way they want it.
I think "severity-based" categories might be problematic, as that "less critical" single server outage is actually *very* critical to those on that server, and I can forsee "squabbling" among users over that - different folks will likely have different definitions of what is "critical" than will you, or I, or your support employee making the post.
Making "active" critical announcments that are still likely to impact a large group of users "stickey" (up top) in some way is a good thought.
--rlparker
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