Nope, he was bought on to be the community leader and has had some personal issues.
The Dev team has used BTCTalk but didn't know about the ANN section where Kai created the the RavenCoin ANN 11 days later after the official release of Jan 03.
Raven project carries on but with new social media coordinator @shiggidy which I'm waiting to hear what his role is in the project - I'll go on Discord shortly to ask.

UPDATE: Discord community have described @shiggidy as a long time community member and an admin for the new Discord channel, and ofcourse the creator or this new ANN.

...and a dictator - but that was a joke