When the game servers go down unexpectedly and nobody has access to the game, Jagex staff also have no access to the website to inform us that the game has indeed gone down.
I believe there should be a dead man's switch in the website code whereby, if and when the connection ever goes down, the website automatically updates with a pre-generated generic note stating that there may be server issues ongoing at this time.
This will serve the function of telling the community that there may be issues, whilst not requiring anyone to access the website to make any changes to it.
This should be considered as not everybody uses social media, and even those that do sometimes prefer to get their information from the route source (i.e. the RS website).
~A~
29-Dec-2022 13:19:45