i dunno i think there was something going on with submission notifications or something like that, then they posted a downtime notice for maintinance, then apparently someone resigned from the staff.

TL;DR same old shit XD

"Planned Outage: Fri, Nov 21 @ 2AM EST/7AM GMT. We are planning database work to improve site performance for uploads, notifications. Est. downtime 6-8 hours.
Change of Staff: StarryKitten has stepped down from the staff and left the development team. His access been removed from our systems."

it was posted above the "11/13/2014 Site Status, New Coder, Stats" at the top of the page.
I was removed earlier tonight. So looks like there won't be any planned downtime... (it was happening while I was going to be asleep anyway, so I had no problem)