Well. The playerbase currently is mostly made up of 10-13 year olds who dont touch the forums and just play the game. If your looking for a decent conversation, you normally wont get it.
Trending servers are Default Build DMs, and RPs of every kind. The young ones inhabit the RP servers and maintain them so there is always about 20 RP servers up at any given time with around 15 to 5 people. My advice for those servers: stay away. No fun to be had, no game to be played.
Quality servers with quality builds are exceedingly rare. It seems building and eventing skills are held by the same few players who are slowly dieing off.
Oh yeah, and if you haven't seen yet; maps and interiors have been removed to make way for shaders and environmental customization.
That's my biopsy.