An OS upgrade unfortunately took down most of the Celemp website a while back, and there just hasn't been enough free time to dedicate to resolving the issues. But the Christmas holidays presented an opportunity to get away from other commitments for a while, and the problems have been resolved.
The underlying software has been updated to the latest versions, which brings some improvements but also probably some minor issues.
Security should be much better, with CAPTCHAs on all submissions, so hopefully there won't be so much of a problem with spam comments (you may not have seen the problem, but your friendly admin sure did). If you had a picture associated with your login you'll probably have to reload it (sorry).
There may be some tweaking that still needs to be done, but we're looking forward to having active forums again and implementing the changes to the game engine so we can start some more games.
Update: I found the original images people had associated with their accounts, so you don't have to reload them.
Celestial Empire
http://www.celemp.org/main/article.php?story=20080108162436813