Great news, got in contact with Support over at GPG and got the following response:
"Hi Jordan,
Apologies for the downtime, some things changed on the network and this was overlooked =(
Everything should be back up now and there is no current plans to EVER retire the gaspowered forums.
Gas Powered Games"
Forums are back online!
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