Please keep things positive. Best advise I believe is to try out different sites. Find what works well for you. If you don't like it, don't go back and try another site. Nothing says you only have to play on 1 site. At one time, I played on about 6 different turn-based game sites.
Jim Dandy: Well it is down again. There was an update that went wrong, and as they tried to roll it back - something was not working correctly.
I read it on the beta site (which is now down also), but they also have a MSN group that they keep very active, and if you go there - you will find an update about the current downtime. (I just got back to the computer so apparently what they thought was going to be an easy fix earlier was not.... and also brought down the beta server in the process...)