'cause the local ISP, my employer of the past 8.5 years, which hosted the chat room, shut down the business April 1. The server on which chat runs is nearly 7 years old. One of the two CPUs in it failed yesterday, LOL!
Anyways, there's a slight possibility the software could be moved to hosting at a long-time associate, but it would have to be relicensed for that server. Dunno yet.