You can mock me all you want, but communicating effectively with your customers, especially during a "crisis", is important.
It will affect how people perceive your product and your ability to continue to provide it. If they want to monetize, they need customers.
We're not talking about a major undertaking. Simply providing useful information in the main avenue they have open during the DDOS seems like a pretty straightforward thing to me.
Actually, I'm phenomenally impressed with how Posterous is responding personally to all of their customers. Their messages is pretty straight forward "DOS - hope to be back up within the Hour" - That's all I'd really need to know.
Ironically, I came to ycombinator first to see what the status was and didn't even have to click through to "new". :-)
It will affect how people perceive your product and your ability to continue to provide it. If they want to monetize, they need customers.
We're not talking about a major undertaking. Simply providing useful information in the main avenue they have open during the DDOS seems like a pretty straightforward thing to me.