Here's what I do know:
Sites been down for awhile and nobody has heard anything more than what you folks who emailed the org know.
End of last year ModAdmin was talking to his contact with the team to have the forum tech upgraded. I being a longtime moderator and software developer by trade offered to help if needed. The club does have an IT guy of some sort but I was never looped in at that point and nothing came of it.
Earlier this season ModAdmin reached out to me to look into the extended board functionality to see what could be done from our end to try and upgrade the site. At that point I was upgraded to a site admin account and was able to dig through the forum admin screens, however I soon hit permissions and access hurdles trying to copy update versions to their back end servers. At that point ModAdmin contacted the club again to see if we could get access or have their people take it on. This was in June/July and we hadn't heard anything since.
I don't believe this outage was planned and for now we just have to hold our breath and wait.