Is Steam down atm? Any way to know for sure?

Hello duders .... I´ve tried to login to Steam for the past hour but I think that it may be down... or do any of you know if there is a way to monitor when it is down?

I assume it is because I try to access the "network trouble shooting tips" access but it fails to connect (it says 502 bad gateway).

its down for me.

also, isteamdown.com says it is down.

When I go to my friends list it says the servers are down for maintenance, so I assume that is the reason.

"Routine Maintenance" or something equally poorly timed. http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/24lbmu/steam_servers_currently_down_for_routine/

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/steamcommunity.com.html

Comments are entertaining at least.

You can check a summery at steamdown.net to see what steam services are up or down

http://steamstat.us/ also.

It's their usual "routine maintenance" that happens at random hours of the day, random days of the week and for a random amount of time. The very definition of routine.

Figures ... thanks everyone ... glad to see there are places to check this out

Edit: Oh it seems it is back up!!!

@pr1mus: Well, at least they aren't ever late for their "routine maintenance."

And Steam is back up

All those star wars games on sale are what crashed steam