Development hasn't completely died, but we were told that it would be a while before there was any progress.
Discussion still occurs occasionally in the irc channel on SynIRC, #fictionbranches. TheGuest, JadeTimber and myself are always lurking in the channel (but we may take a while to respond. Be patient) and doclock pops in from time to time.
Here's a list of the servers for SynIRC: <https://www.synirc.net/servers>
