wait... what was that?
hack.. or siteowner's hissy fit ?... either way it's a blight on the reputation of the site.
Seems to be back up, but it's a good reminder that we need alternatives for every service in the bitcoin ecosystem.
I am building a site comparable to bitcoincharts and first wanted to use their API. Now however, I will be using each exchanges individual API. In the long term I am thinking about creating a bitcoincharts like API.