How about a quick note from the devs that they are alive?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Redroach

The mods here? You mean those in the midst of their epic power-trip? No doubt about that...

Or, second possibility: I, for one, welcome our new 777 overlords!

Why would the mods care about speculation as long as the posts weren't insulting. I didn't see alot of insults being thrown around in some of the speculative threads, that were deleted. That said, I still believe there was some input from IC, to delete any negative speculation threads atleast until the decision is finalized on the future of the development. I don't think the decision has been made to cancel the development yet, as word would have leaked to the Russian forums, and there would multiple links to those Russian threads in these forums.