This GUI for Clash by another author was also "removed" and archived (it seems the "main" branch is still there if you browse branches) https://github.com/zzzgydi/clash-verge

So has another adjacent project by yet another author, using the same technique: https://github.com/MetaCubeX/Clash.Meta

Which would suggest it's not anodin.

Yes.

Seems they have finally caught on and updated the status page now.

Yeah just saw that. Didn't realise how long Bitbucket had been down since.

Seems to be caused by AWS https://status.aws.amazon.com/