I saw the same message two weeks ago, (10 days thus far; so true, not yet 14 days) "LoL" Far from just days. It's just Joel, you know he has done this before, let's see what the new site looks like...
The site was open just fine until it was closed down temporarily few days ago for maintenance and some make-overs. So I don't understand why it was down for weeks for you whereas it was fine to me so far. 🙂
That is one of the reasons for the temporary closure; we tried to give the forum a rest for a while and hopefully when we return it'll be livelier than before. 😀