What the heck happened to this site

I just recently got back on this site after about a year and a half off...I like the new format, but it seems like way less people are on here now, the forums are a ghost town, i remember when there were hundreds of thousands of post and replies, replies would come quickly and if you asked a question a year ago, it would be burried way down in the forums, it just looks scarce here or is it just me?