I am seeing many journals about where you can find various artists after FA was largely down for two days.

This is a good time to remember to have alternative contact methods with artists you commission, and preferably keep as much of your back and forth external to FA as you can FA is great for initial contact, but you should move it off the platform once it comes time to work out the important details..

I was in contact with a few artists without any disruption whatsoever during this outage without any difficulties since most people are going to have a Discord or Telegram these days. Even regular email can be relied upon. They will usually be more than happy to share them with you as long as you are polite and don't pester them all the time for updates.