Attention is being directed in all the wrong places.
If people who browse these forums didn't do so just for the useless off topic bull stuff and rather used their talents in the more relevant sections of the forum, thus actually playing the game, then we would seem much more populated and people would have more reason to host. No one is going to put time and effort into a server when there's no one left to play on it. Thus the quality of servers decreases, with the exception of a few popular ones as of recent that come to mind, Ravencroft's is back, Boss Battles is always up, and Scenery's Battlemix seems new and fun but have yet to join it.