Read the distillate again, it seems that the project is still alive, hopefully soon everything will be back to normal, they were long months of uncertainty, so I understand we will be like this for a while longer. Better times will come for the STEMsocial community.
It was never dead, it's just on pause as lemouth is, well, as his comment says above! I'm sure everyone knows this by now, though.
Distilled can continue either way, but we lack the statistical data. Now, we decided to just go on without the data for a while with our new publisher-in-training =)