Yeah, Red is very much alive. He and I have been staying in contact. Far as c00ld0c goes....been a long time since I heard that particular .name.
Welcome back regardless and I can only give a partial answer as to why it was down in the first place. The forum and possibly the server itself got hacked and AJ had problems with it after he tried to bring it back up. The forum never worked quite right after that and ended up going down fully. As to why it is back. AJ still sees potential in this place as do I, Sweg and several others.
I just hope we can bring things back close to how they were before if not better. The staff is currently discussing what to do in order to make that happen and it is probably going to take a lot of hard work on everyone's part but I think it is doable. There has always been something almost magical about this forum and I know a lot of other people think the same thing.
@Sweg
Would like to see what the two of you are cooking up once it's out. The two of you always were a good team so good things are bound to happen.