Ask HN: newmogul no more?

After noticing NM being unresponsive over a month ago, I asked HN where it went: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901119 Mainly got dismissive responses that people had asked the question before and that it seemed nickb was on vacation. However, that was a previous incident and nickb came back, along with NM. Now, NM has completely gone defunct, and there's nary a peep. Strange, since it had a fairly dedicated following, excellent submissions, and some fairly high level participants. I would not expect a site like that to just fold. Anyone know what happened, or point me to a source? Again, this is not the same issue that happen a couple months ago where nickb went away on vacation and came back and restored NM.