Mog Station: Recruit a Friend "There are no valid service accounts"

[Neuflune]

Details:
I tried to send a Friend Recruitment request but the Mog Station keeps putting me back to the Log In page if I click anything in the menu or try to send data (such as OK or Next).

Date/Time: Oct 20, 2014 1pm GMT+8
Location: Mog Station
Operating System: Windows 7
Browser: Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome (both latest)

Update: I just tried on my Android phone using Google Chrome and the same thing is happening.

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I just tried sending a friend recruitment request today. It was a horrifying experience especially since I am using One-Time Password.

- Account Page asked for username, password, one-time password and captcha. I entered it, got in and headed to Mog Station.
- Once again, Mog Station asked for that information. I had to wait for my app to generate another one-time password. No problem, just two repetitive things so far.
- Account Service page DID NOT list "Recruit a Friend" when it showed up, only my service details. So what I did was, I clicked "Account Service" on the upper left. To my horror, I got the Mog Station log-in page AGAIN. I had to wait for my one-time password to generate a new one so that I could fill up the info AGAIN (username, password, one-time password, captcha!)
- Logged in, saw the Recruit a Friend option (why was it not there when I logged in the first time?!) and clicked it. Lo and behold. I was thrown back to the Mog Station Log-in page AGAIN. How many times is that now?
- Okay, I got in again after the same tedious process of waiting for one-time password and such. Wrote the email address of my friend, a little message, but when I clicked NEXT to send the recruitment request... guess what happened. Yep, I went back to the Mog Station Log in page.
- Well, of course I logged in YET AGAIN. And then the recruitment page tells me "There are no valid service accounts". Yeah, that's what happens when your website logs out an account before it sends a request... the service account gets disconnected, no?

I tried this on two major browsers. REPEATEDLY (I might be a masochist, yea). I cleared my cache, restarted both browsers and all that. Same issue up to this point. So I cannot send a recruitment request to my friend.

There is no notice in News that Mog Station is under maintenance, so why is it acting so obnoxiously? Why ask for account information for EVERY.SINGLE.CLICK?

P.S. If this is a known bug, can you please link me to the thread that addresses/acknowledges it?