Perhaps you've seen that CodePen Projects is out: http://codepen.io/pro/projects/
The release of that coincided with a major backend project, the rewrite our payment and signup system. Both of these were huge, long, demanding projects. For our own sake, we're going to be mixing it up with smaller, quicker-to-release stuff that we've been banking up and are sure people can use.
We're also trying to stay focused on "high impact" work. It's so easy to get sidetracked on a little project that ultimately has little impact on the business or our user base. We're right on the cusp of profitability and we want to get firmly into that territory by working on things that have the best chance of getting us there.
On a related note, we have a podcast were we talk about a lot of this behind-the-scenes stuff called CodePen Radio: https://blog.codepen.io/radio/