yes, drupal is down. This is bad.

if you really want to access the modules try drupalmodules.com

Is this a scheduled outage? If so then where's it posted? There should have been something on the front page.

Groups.drupal.org is still working but the main site is closed. You are right they should have posted a notification for us Uk'ers

Drupal.org is acting very strange. First a site off-line message for a couple of hours and now "No forums defined". Probably because there are two forum vocabularies floating around. So now you can't make a starting post because the second vocabulary is empty. Who is playing with the switches??

interested to hear your comments as I'm about to choose a platform for my company.