Thanks HAC, @Varynos, these the short answers to your questions
1) Does it work/is it starting to?
It does work, it’s quite far from done, but further along than starting.
2) Is this still an ongoing thing or did I find another sad dormant site?
«this» as in creating a LU Server emulator in C++ using RakNet 3.25 is definately still going on
«this» as the ‘LUNIServer’ branded project has kind of dissolved
«this» as in the luniserver.com community is quite vivid at times
«this» as in docs on how to create a server is far along (humanoid & lcdr)