This is so sad. I know I only wrote one very flaky ficlet to test the site for you (and managed to break it by posting one that was exactly the limit of characters long) but there were/are may other writers that used the site – I cannot see how AOL thinks this makes them look good.
As it was your idea, do you retain any intellectual property? Could you start up a new ficlets site in some way? Would there be any programmers, etc. out there that would help? I would offer any time that I could (around being ill lol) for testing/breaking the new site…