Site's been down about a week, and now seems to re-direct to Anthrocon. Twitter hasn't seen life since 2014 either.

Hmm, not sure if this is from the current downtime or the last one.
https://u18chan.com/chat/

Well I guess they updated their DNS, it seems to be back to something u18chan related, although I like how it links with "Stay up-to-date" to their twitter account, while you clearly won't get very updated there. https://twitter.com/leonfox001 could have been an alternative source for news but nothing there either.

I always found not updating official social media slightly annoying, one doesn't have to go through ridiculous amounts of updates or hour by hour updates of an outage, just a simple "We're having server issues, expect extended downtime" is enough. It's really vague, but it lets people know that someone knows of the problem and that it will get fixed eventually and not just left to rot.

somebody spilled coke into the mainframe

ricetag said:
somebody spilled coke into the mainframe

Should have spilled some epoxy resin in there instead, it has the added benefit of making everything coke proof.

"Hello fellow users, we have unfortunately experienced a catastrophic failure at our datacenter we host at. As such we are working to recover the site as best we can with limited resources, we hope to see you all soon.

-Sincerely LeonFox."

ricetag said:
somebody spilled coke into the mainframe

I'd say it has probably corroded away by all the salt in there.