Howdy everyone!
Our sincerest apologies for the forum downtime. Things are quite more complicated than we can describe. Please be assured, as Piotr said, that our tech team and others are working very very hard to get the forums available once again. And yes, we have highly skilled people in our tech team, on contrary to what another poster stated...
If it was just a matter of a technical glitch.. we wouldn't be having this discussion. I really wish we could explain just what happened, however because of what happened we cannot go into detail on that at this time.
Just rest assured that our forums/site/database did not get hacked. We were not sold out to anyone. Ultima Online is not closing down. We will be bringing the forums back just as soon as humanly and technologically possible.
No other downtime Stratics has experienced is similar to this downtime and quite frankly, what happened could happen to just about any site out or forum out there.
On the bright side, the Stratics IRC Servers are totally unaffected and we have been seeing large increases in IRC users who play UO (and other games) on the Stratics IRC Network.
