I'm sorry I don't recall DD being locked to players. I logged onto it just a few days ago and walked around and chatted with Hiro. I'm not staff.
And there were many updates, DD had an issue with a staff member deleting many of the scripts and whatnot and Hiro had just recovered all of that and was implementing some of the final touches.
Troubles with Doomsday On the DD forums he was quoted as claiming DD being "89% done. Had you actually entered DD, saw past the unconnected levels (The last step) and checked to see that the inside levels were pretty much all uploaded and connected, and the NPCs were almost entirely completed and upped.