I had the privilege of seeing him at the mariposa folk festival last year. It was a surprise because he wasn’t on the lineup, but he was there accepting an award. I was pretty much in tears at the end of his performance.
The planet is definitely a bit emptier without him, but his music will help to fill the void as long as we continue to listen.
I beleive SO recently switched from fastly to cloudflare, and some of the DNS records are taking time to catch up. If you having the same problem try flushing your DNS cache and the issue should be resolved.