There have been bandwidth problems over the last couple days as most of you have probably noticed, and the current ISP has been very slow to respond.  Therefore, Metaforge will be moving to a new hosting service with improved bandwidth and uptime guarantees, which will provide for a better experience for everyone.  We're going to make this move as soon as possible, and I will give as much notice as possible about potential downtimes that may occur during the transition as soon as I know the details.  Obviously we will try to minimize any downtimes.  Thanks for your patience as we make this upgrade move to improve our service!  

Update: we plan to be moving soon.  We expect there will be a temporary disruption in services.  We will try to give as much advance warning as possible, and will try to have the new server up as soon as possible.  If this occurs, and your software fails to connect, you may try changing your server setting (under Preferences) to 74.208.98.178 which will be the new address of our new server.
 
Those of you who are more technically inclined may understand that this delay may be due to the delay of DNS propagation.  In layman's terms, if you get a fail to connect message, try switching your server to the above address and things will hopefully work fine.  

yes, new as well as old players. And Barby, thanks for the information.

Update: The move is mostly complete.  There are a few problems with some pieces of the site that are still being worked out.  Thanks for your patience.