The forget happened to the forums I have come to know and love?!?
The lifespan of the forums has decreased exponentially due to a recent account related exploit in SMF 1, so we've since upgraded to SMF 2 in hopes of escaping all of that
However, the big avatars exploit from SMF 1 never got fixed when SMF 2 was made, so it got re-exploited again and now we can't upload avatars for right now