It is worrying sign. Something doesn't feel right.

We have had a random vague post (first post here in 1 year) from Big Muscles

We have had another very vague post from Trappy (public relations) to say he was told that it will be back up asap. But trappy is a public relations person, not admin of the site.

Deposits usually work like this. BTC -> AB Deposit Address -> Another AB address. And it stays in the 3rd address for a long time on it's own.

Worst fear is it could be an exit scheme. And maybe they are trying to calm the situation, just to stabalize the price of the currencies that they are going to cash out. For exampe just drop a vague message once a week, "back soon, doing more updates"

Saying that, I did have a lot of confidence in AB. They were strong, really strong. If they wanted to exit they could have done it at a more active time, they could have allowed more to deposit and disallow withdrawals for more time.

Who knows maybe it was just a major server or security issue, these things happen in IT. And not always possible to fix them over night.