I have to say I was suprised to see that the site went "pay-required" yesterday, I hadn't heard anything about that, and, in fact, didn't even know it until Mule posted on it yesterday afternoon.
Anyways, I called Chaney when I saw that and he said he'd just talked to the guy like 5 minutes earlier at the sports bar they both frequent and Russell told him that he'd gone live with the membership stuff yesterday. So we found out when all of you did.
Meh, it's a decent site and all, but I'm not going to be signing up for a membership at those (or probably any) prices. Chaney has not gotten any free membership or anything like that; I asked him straight up, and he'd have at least shared the login info with me if he had.
As far as the site being down, I noticed yesterday that some of their html links were kind of screwy, and I had to do some URL manipulation just to get to various links - I think they need to do some work on that.
That's all I know on this... Good lucky to everyone either way.