While I can agree it's sad to not get a tiny update every here and there on the state of progress ...
I wouldn't go as far as to say they've abandoned this site. For starters (as some already has said) the site is still up. If they had abandoned it, they would have stopped paying for it to stay up. I'm not one to say how large a server they have to keep the site on, though I can for certain say it's larger than the one I have for my website. And I pay somewhere around 40 US dollars a year. Mine is in the smallest size I could get and with that said; you can imagine for yourself what they pay for theirs - since it's quite certainly not the smallest size one could have on a server. And paying that amount of money to keep it up and running ... Well ... I believe no one would take the time to do if they've abandoned the site. Would you personally pay such an amount of money if you had no intention of ever coming back?
Lastly, I may not be one with the greatest knowledge regarding the coding that a site on this scale demands and what they envision that they want to do with it. However, I've done enough coding in my life since I once upon a time dreamed about working as a web developer. With that I can say for certain that it takes an awful great amount of time to get things right. Even if you are good and know what you are doing, it takes time. Just like anything creative and any time-consuming project does. Especially if and when things happens outside the work of a website such as this. I can imagine that they don't want to release the new updates until they are certain that there won't be any bugs or aspects that makes it difficult to use for neither us as the users and them as the staff. A website is supposed to work on every level. Both behind the scenes where we as users cannot see it. But where the staff sees it, the site has to work for them as admins who make the updates needed behind the scenes as well.
I personally prefer it that they take the time they need to make what's coming for us the best it can be. In order to minimize the bugs and things that may go wrong and appear later if they launch it too early.
Life happens to everyone. It happens to me, to you, to them. All of us, we are but human and our world isn't the easiest and has trying times for all of us. I am not in the right to demand a progress status all the time, since I personally collapse quite hard when something bad happens and I end up with too much anxiety to give status reports on everything I do in my life. I'm simply grateful for what status reports we do get and won't pressure anyone if they don't have the strength nor time to do it at certain points.
I wouldn't go as far as to say they've abandoned this site. For starters (as some already has said) the site is still up. If they had abandoned it, they would have stopped paying for it to stay up. I'm not one to say how large a server they have to keep the site on, though I can for certain say it's larger than the one I have for my website. And I pay somewhere around 40 US dollars a year. Mine is in the smallest size I could get and with that said; you can imagine for yourself what they pay for theirs - since it's quite certainly not the smallest size one could have on a server. And paying that amount of money to keep it up and running ... Well ... I believe no one would take the time to do if they've abandoned the site. Would you personally pay such an amount of money if you had no intention of ever coming back?
Lastly, I may not be one with the greatest knowledge regarding the coding that a site on this scale demands and what they envision that they want to do with it. However, I've done enough coding in my life since I once upon a time dreamed about working as a web developer. With that I can say for certain that it takes an awful great amount of time to get things right. Even if you are good and know what you are doing, it takes time. Just like anything creative and any time-consuming project does. Especially if and when things happens outside the work of a website such as this. I can imagine that they don't want to release the new updates until they are certain that there won't be any bugs or aspects that makes it difficult to use for neither us as the users and them as the staff. A website is supposed to work on every level. Both behind the scenes where we as users cannot see it. But where the staff sees it, the site has to work for them as admins who make the updates needed behind the scenes as well.
I personally prefer it that they take the time they need to make what's coming for us the best it can be. In order to minimize the bugs and things that may go wrong and appear later if they launch it too early.
Life happens to everyone. It happens to me, to you, to them. All of us, we are but human and our world isn't the easiest and has trying times for all of us. I am not in the right to demand a progress status all the time, since I personally collapse quite hard when something bad happens and I end up with too much anxiety to give status reports on everything I do in my life. I'm simply grateful for what status reports we do get and won't pressure anyone if they don't have the strength nor time to do it at certain points.