Did the previous thread disappear?
No it was locked, OP deleted ... if the HZ platform is going well great, but very odd to abandon this forum.
I started thread here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1817860.msg18108446#msg18108446 to discuss what happened to HZ, maybe the current dev team can provide an update.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823785.0I found HZ to be a really good project, and as OP stated, distro was 100% improvement over NXT, and user base was large, including refugees from another nxt clone NFD, so I hope any update shows HZ is indeed still being developed.