Iraq Body Count cutting and running? (Update x2: Staying the course but running behind)

I've wondered for a number of weeks what's going on with Iraq Body Count. Their graph of civilian deaths in Iraq has apparently not been updated since April 20. Maybe they update every four months? I guess that could be ... but there are other signs that activity at IBC has tailed off.

clipped from www.iraqbodycount.org

Above is an image from IBC of their civilian death counter embed. IBC invited visitors to use the embed to keep a running tally of deaths in Iraq. Just in case the clip I made actively updates, as of this posting it reads "85,141-92,871."


IBC's database page is likewise paused on April 20, which I take to mean that the counter isn't going anywhere since that time.

On the other hand, it's possible to find news accounts that include statements along these lines:

Iraq Body Count, a group that collates a tally of casualties from media reports, noted 752 civilian and police deaths in May, a grim figure but less than a third of the average last summer.
(Economist)

Additionally, I found news from early June (2008) reporting the IBC counter numbers as "84218 to 91889"--reflecting considerable activity this month if the figures were reported accurately and the IBC update was timely (as well as the June 2 news report containing it).

IBC gets full credit for attempting to do their work accurately and for its very reasonable criticisms of the so-called "Lancet" study, but it may be that the data coming from Iraq too markedly undermines editorial positions posted by IBC such as the following from Mar 18, 2007:

The daily violence remains Iraq’s greatest civil concern. The data we have presented over the last four years show that there has never been a sustained period when things have not been deteriorating on the security front. Contrary to statements from President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that there are ‘encouraging signs’ of progress in Iraq, and that ‘things are going reasonably well,’ the violence this last week was at the usual high levels. This innocent death toll is the blunt and ever-louder signal of a horribly failed policy. The US-UK designed military-interventionist “solution” for Iraq has clearly turned out to be no such thing. Talk of "civil war" should not disregard the US-UK policies which led to it, and the continued military presence, far from being a solution, is at the core of Iraq’s problems. The Coalition needs to finally begin handing control of Iraq back to Iraqis. If it keeps deferring this obligation, what hope is there that year five won’t be even worse than year four?
("Year Four: Simply the worst")

Has IBC packed it in or begun to pack it in as the Iraq War has neared its end?

Update:

Well this thing works, anyway:

clipped from www.iraqbodycount.org

Note the revised numbers since yesterday.

I've contacted Iraq Body Count and confirmed that they're just running behind a bit. Hopefully I can add more detail later.

Update 2:

See also
Update on Iraq Body Count