What happened to the lore?

[Xuixien]

Particularly the players who seemed to be pivotal in it, Hydrostatic Podcast, etc.

[Chan_aar]

Lore joined things like Cosmos missions, Epic Arcs, Resource Wars, Dust 514, Valkyrie, Incarna, spacebook (don’t ask), Faction Warfare and probably a dozen other things on the abandoned content list.

[Scipio_Artelius]

The volumes were all housed in the Captain’s Quarters.

[Uriel_the_Flame]

It went to r/Eve

[Apu_Chipri]

Lol why would a space arcade game need lore.

[Khlaa_Sor]

Current in-game content (the running Federation Grand Prix event being no exception) still draws heavily on the lore, and there are people who invest tremendous amount of academic-level effort in its summarization, analysis, and interpretation. Please see a couple examples below:

[Compilation+Speculation] The Lore of the Drifters - and their Other possible identity ∰

The Drifters are one of the most infamous modern threats in EVE, possessing stunningly agile and hard-hitting vessels that have claimed victory against many an unsuspecting pilot. Though they first made an appearance in the Tiamat release in February 2015, there were a number of events leading up to their reveal that are intimately linked to their emergence. This post outlines the entirety of the Drifter story thus far, and a second section goes into extreme detail on points linking this Jove s…

[Compilation] The Lore of the Triglavian Collective

Since their introduction, the Triglavians have quickly become an important part of EVE’s world, complete with a fleshed-out but very cryptic backstory. Thus far, bits and pieces of information on the faction have been fed into the game here-and-there in a number of places, but even then an additional layer of enigma is present in their alternative grammar and the broad spread of information needed to understand them as a whole. This post serves as a comprehensive repository for all we currently …

[Elsebeth_Rhiannon]

CCP still publishes in-universe world news, you can find them here: World News - EVE Community

Current lore nerd hang-around seems to be the RiP Discord, https://discord.gg/fUJRaAf

Talking In Stations show has bits on lore frequently.

[Xuixien]

Ah thank you!