welcome to GWW. I am not sure about gaymegasites, but AC is now on an invite-only system. They changed this about 3 years ago, kicked out 95% of their webmasters and invited only a select few. Yes there has been loads of changes in the last 5 years, a lot of these were due to visa tightening up and new 2257 regs. Make sure you read up on these...searching this forum is a great start to help you get back up to speed.

cheers,
Luke