It even distributed to other instances. I see the complaint from kbin.social, a totally different interface and server. Some things are working okay, it seems. Perhaps OP is just put off by how different it looks and feels from Reddit (which would often be broken and down too). There's user styles to make the pages look more "Reddit-like" if it's just appearances. But why stick to the old, when you can try new things?
I just realized that OP even found a Reddit-inspired community to post their gripe on. It seems to work well enough.