What's the status of LXDE and LXQT?

All right, for some background information, there's a bit of confusion around the Lubuntu circles as well as the LXQT scene in general, as the websites for LXQT and LXDE both have been down a week now. Lubuntu is about to release its first LTS version featuring the LXQT environment in place of LXDE, and at the same time there's been a quiet atmosphere because LXQT has slowed down its development. I want the DE to succeed but it looks like something is going on in the background.