Getting philosophical up in this bitch. I think the right thing to do in this situation is to
pull the lever, and
just learn Chinese.
Honestly I don't get why people always start this debate; We always end up with the same stale points, and debating
now is useless. We know what mistakes were made and how the community as a whole could have reacted better (and I, as somebody who only rarely visits anymore, do believe that these mistakes have been a lesson to us all), and it's pointless to argue about what we should have done and what evils Oracle and Mojang bestowed upon us.
The fact that we're debating this at all (and that at least 48 people have read this thread) is a sign that the community is still very much alive and willing to at least skim over these overused sentences. Like Raxo said, we didn't lose players, we just lost the ones you and I know -- maybe you and I are the problem, because
we're the ones who have grown up and now refuse to accept new people to "replace" old, gone friends. I barely know anyone anymore (coming from back when I knew almost the entirety of CZS players), but that doesn't mean there isn't anyone for me
to meet. I don't go to my local drug store and say it's abandoned just because two of the three pharmacists that I used to know there got retired and replaced, and they hired a security guard. (The guard here representing the extensions of our community into GMod etc.)
Just enjoy what's before you, reminisce old memories you got from here, and continue to meet new people just like you did when you first came here.