if you go on the minecraft forums, anyone complaining that it's down again is shouted down by all the fanbois
but, it really is time they got this fixed, stop fucking about with the game and once and for all get the damn login servers sorted out
One of the threads on the Minecraft Forums mentions that Notch and co at Mojang have gone to GDC (Game Developer's Conference) in San Fransico, leaving nobody with the keys to the server to be able to administer it.
It's a bit like that time when Pete and myself went to Teh Nodnol meet and Teh fell over*, except EVEN MORE FUCKING ANNOYING. Gah.
*This is true, I even tried to restart the server using pocketputty on my phone, but had a) consumed too much alcohol and b) couldn't get a stable data connection to do it.