MoodViews down for two weeks already

I attended a lecture yesterday by Maarten de Rijke on various things they do to utilize UGC (user-generated content) on the Internet. He announced that their MoodViews project, which I consider as a very promising information technology project, is down for two weeks already due to hardware problems (which is also mentioned in the website) and that two days after this problem started their lead computer programmer for the project resigned and moved.