I am also a TS/CS MVP so when the first post popped up on the Bug report forum I pushed it to the Forum Support agents. Other MVPs did too. I am sure there were also in game reports and other reports.
We got it 
AH was shut down shortly after.
Hopefully it gets fixed soon. If not, people get to interact with humans in the trade channel?
No. The issue was the AH basically spewing gold like a broken ATM. That may take time to fix. The game is 18 years old and the AH was designed to be server specific and faction only. That has changed over the years, with this change being the most ambitious.