Yeah too bad indeed. Our dev team has been discussing building our own server (since one of the staff members works at a hosting company), but for now we're all too busy to even start thinking about it seriously.
Have you released your image hack by any chance? That'd be great to have for the time being until something else comes along...
Oh and yeah, Freddie's hack is just about what I'm looking for

With a few enhancements like popularity, resolution etc. it'd be perfect!