It appears that they are deliberately limiting PHP memory usage to 24MB for free users.
They have done a massive overhaul of the free hosting servers. Some details get overlooked. The PHP limit had been 64M. You weren't "getting around" the limit via .htaccess. It isn't possible and it wasn't necessary.
They are working on restoring the 64M limit.
And lastly, I'm going to go through and adjust the memory\execution time limits of PHP. It looks like these got wiped in our latest update.
They should be adjusted back to normal, if you still have PHP issues let me know.
so what we can do is just wait??? For how long???