Sorry about the experience you had with the org. DuckDuckHack is indeed in maintenance mode right now as we couldn't figure out the best contribution model that

Sorry about the experience you had with the org. DuckDuckHack is indeed in maintenance mode right now as we couldn't figure out the best contribution model that scaled with the search engine, though are still thinking about how to do that. All of these new apps and extensions are open source though, and we'd welcome any contributions.