Disappearing villages

Idk if this is happening to anyone else or not but a lot of villages in my quadrant have disappeared in the last two days. A lot of these were NPC villages but a few of my farm villages are gone too making raiding a much slower process.

If they're going to continue removing villages like that, for those of you who haven't started already, it may pay to start raiding sooner than later while the pickings are still easy.

Yea, my initial target is gone. It was a non-NPC lvl 31 village one square away. Luckily there are still a lot more around.

I've noticed my area has a couple of villages disappear, and a lot of them are grey now. I can only surmise the grey ones are considered abandoned, so I'm now raiding them as much as I can.