everyones funds are safe
Not everyone's...
I've been seeing these kind of complaints and rumours everywhere, and on Poloniex itself before the trollbox was shut, I don't think Poloniex is at all safe...
Also someone I know irl is having problems with them.
I was referring to customer holdings were not effected by the outage we just experienced. Yes, I have heard a lot of people with deposit and withdraw problems.