when I open igolder in tor or on my normal internet connection it gives me a security warning about the site being risky to use... is the site down, is someone trying to fish, covert LE operation or what could be going on? this raises concerns about the security of encrypting sensitive information
Thank God!
igolder is not secure and was never a secure way to encrypt your messages with PGP.
They could easily save all of your unencrypted messages, private keys and passwords.
Please download and use gpg4usb instead:
http://www.gpg4usb.org/
Guide:
https://securityinabox.org/gpg4usb_portable
Looks like their security certificate expired:
I hope they never renew it.
They were supposedly going out of business. (For over a year now.)