While I might've not been on the forums for a long time, I just find this community enjoyable. It's small enough where you get to know people without drowning in the floods of new or old users. It felt like you truly got to know some people.
I've always loved the game, as well. The quirky physics engine, the really amazing builds by people like Brickitect, etc. It's easy to just have a multiplayer server and screw around in it with some buddies. The reason I never liked Minecraft servers is because Minecraft just felt so restricted compared to Blockland. While in Minecraft, you had really primitive circuits and systems, in BL, you could easily event and script.
Honestly what I think brought me back from last year was just boredom. I played BL all the time throughout 2009 - 2013, then just stopped for a while due to games like Garry's Mod or just simply learning to program. But one day, I decided to look up these forums again, assuming that there would be nobody on. I genuinely thought that BL was dead and gone for.
However, I was proven wrong. Very wrong. There was a thriving and genuinely friendly community, and that's kept me here to this day.