They been dead as a door nail since they went offline last time to upgrade and took like a month. Everyone ran here or to f95 and nobody went back because it was slow as a dog when it FINALLY came back up. Sooooo they are probably tossing in the towel.
Pretty sure HF is dead, there are no notification or anything like that. Some speculation there was a massive vbulletin exploit attack attack few days ago HF could be one of their victim, don't think they will be back anytime soon or forever, that forum is pretty much dying since a years ago. All i can say is rest in peace hf, rest in peace..
It is really sad to see HongFire is no longer available. To think I was just on there not to long ago. I hope this is temporary and maybe it'll be back. I am just being optimistic.