Arcon and Aureus migrated servers and something got mixed up en route. It can be difficult to tell when a server migration works/doesn't work because DNSs cache sites to some extent. Arcon fixed the problemwhen it was reported.
Also yeah, the windower forums / IRC will be closed. We made a poll asking how people felt about it and got something like 7 responses over a month, more than half of which were that people didn't care. Windower moved to Discord a while back and the Windower section of this forum gets more activity than the windower.net forums did.
Basically just reducing footprint/maintenance without really reducing functionality.