So I was wondering why numerous pages on mailchimp weren't loading this morning. After giving up I decided to cruise hacker news... then I find this made the front page... everything makes sense now.
MailChimp is the biggest company of it's kind, I doubt HN's traffic could be the reason why some of you couldn't load the site.
Both of these are quite the anecdotal statements to say the least. Not really sure what you mean by "of its kind", but there are plenty of other companies in the email marketing space, and to the GP's point we really have no clue why their blog went down (MC has been on the frontpage of HN in the past w/o incident).