Uh, hobbyists know enough to use mirrors. I bet of the top 500 distros on distrowatch 99% of them have mirrors. Don't dis hobbyist projects, they run much better than this! This isn't just an isolated weekend incident either, but going on for months, as indicated by this bug:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5818

For my part, I got my N900 at the beginning of December and there have been continuous outages since then, often extended due to weekends or holidays. This boggles my mind too. It's run very very poorly. I've never seen it so bad in any project, hobbbyist or professional.