No, I think that the server is not suffering a decline in popularity, but is suffering of lack of good people to race with. Lately the servers have been invaded by guys with low safety ratings, low xp and PB like 1.19, 1.20, 1.27 (!). I think that along a PB limit that allows you to join a race, there should be an experience limit, because I have seen a lot of people with good PB and driving like crap, thinking that if they are fast everybody should get the hell out of the way, they dont have to respect blue flag because they are fast - things like that.
Sometimes when I join the server there are so many people doing stupid things that for cleaning the server would be necessary to kick 3/4 of the racers, and that sure brings along some bad feelings about the server, but if we want to keep them clean I am afraid we have to do that. Nevertheless that is at least one admin who was crashing on purpose one night, ruining others races and saying "yea, too easy" , "pff like a walk in the park" and so on. And if its an admin (MRC member) who does that, eventually people will not have respect for the server and MRC members.
ketamine.