Thanks @therealwolf for the update/notice. I was wondering why I'm seeing those. We've had hiccups of Steemit being down and literally freaked out. This is less disturbing than steemconnect saying "Account does not exist" when logging in.
So... I also have steemitdev link. In IT, we have dev/qa/staging and prod... is steemitdev the first environment and steemitstage right before steemit prod?
That's why I made this post and also saw the need to promote it - so others find an answer :)
I'm not completely sure about that, but it would make sense.