It is offline again right now. Worse - fetching from the database in a query only produced some of the records, some simply did not show up.

Wonder how many are affected - Apple Developer Support said not their department (????) and that took 4 days to let me know to send in a description of the problem via an app called Feedback Assistant - wasted 4 or 5 days to find out about that channel. So now its 2 days since that filing, and a week and a half overall. still no response. Not a happy camper. Now that I don't trust them to do their job, I must do some serious programming to protect my data from their lack of integrity. Maybe duplicate every crud op into Cloud Firestore? I need to think about this a bit more - if and when the data comes back.