Nethack is not dead

"But wait! Nethack's medallion begins to glow..."

Preceded by an April 1 announcement on usenet: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.roguelike.... which has some informed and not-so-informed commentary..

I have given up on Nethack. Playing UnNetHack or sometimes Nethack 4. If they release something I will check it out, but I am not holding my breath.

EDIT: Just found out one of the new guys are the developer of Nethack 4. Might be interesting after all.

I just play Dwarf Fortress.