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It was closed down well over a year ago.
As to why: my first instinct is that too many intelligent anons were collected into one place, sharing opinions and information dangerous to the endurance of the ZOG tyrannies under which we live. But if I'm remembering correctly the excuse they gave at the time of the shutdown was something like not having the funds to upkeep the website.
>I think that they closed it down themselves though.
Because the ownership of frenschan’s servers was federal (obviously).
>it was a nice place
We had very very good discussions there; and one day without warning, it was taken offline.
Ourchan is a decent substitute however. You can find it here: https://ourchan.org/pol/catalog.html