I think a good sign that the JJ2 community isn't dieing is the fact that I cant recall anything like this happening to us.

Also- Has any JDC season ever seen a massive increase in new players who stick around?
Its not the fact that we don't have tourneys or the like, its the fact that the community is obscure as hell and until recently the default listservers did not work causing many who aren't aware of google to think the game is dead. I don't think Epic even mentioned the listserver redirect on their website at all.