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I'm aware they're still around. I appreciate that they only come out with something when they think it's worth making (and have time to make it) rather than desperately trying to stay relevant. But the flash era enabled a kind of interactivity that I'm not sure is possible in these latter days of passive content consumption.
At the time, I thought this April fools' video was their way of saying they wanted to wind things down. I also think Marzipan's Answering Machine 17 was a brilliant way to celebrate the site, and I would have been happy if that was the last thing they ever made. (Also you know the OUYA screwed up if H*R is making fun of it).
But I do mourn the seemingly immanent loss of the wiki. I hope someone else can revive it. I think the TV Tropes article on H*R calls the wiki "disturbingly comprehensive", and that's an apt description. I used it to read the transcripts of new toons after watching them as there often visual gags I missed that the text would point out.