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Even the status page is intermittently down ("too many requests on the app backlog"), poor Heroku.

Having a 30 second automatic refresh on the status page can't help.

(Edit: Also, my Heroku apps are fine. Makes me feel a bit more secure about multi-tenant hosting.)

Yeah. It's definitely not a heroku issue. We were configured to run on a single backend. It's since been increased and should be better now.