It's always been slowly declining mainly because of the admins and the decline of staff. Main admins keep putting off answers to bugs, reports, requests and updates. While yz puts out some good responses, Selene only comes around to say something dumb like "lol" or something unhelpful.
we drove away a lot of really cool people for really dumb reasons. They say the numbers have always been low in patterns, but we're just going to keep reaching record lows honestly. It's been on a downward spiral since the start of the year and it barely got any better in the summer when everyone was supposedly off school and surge back into the game.