I'm throwing in my two cents. I apologize if it doesn't make sense but I'm giving my honest feelings here.
I've had many friends here. Many come and gone. Many still here, but I'm not in their lives anymore. Many who I have in my lives, and a few I talk to every now and then. I've been here for nearly 7 years (the community as a whole). I've been torn on my feelings about it. For example, I do agree with Aaron that this place is going to be tough to save, and perhaps saving it is impossible.
On the other hand, my nostalgia for everything and everyone makes me wanna keep this place up. How we do that I don't know. It would take a ton of work, and like Zach said, we are all getting older. We can't have this place magically reborn in the future. Some of us will surely have moved on.
One thing I can say that's been a factor that drives people away (myself included for a month) is our own behavior. We ourselves in my eyes are destroying this place. There's truly a bit too much tension between us members and staff. My example is BreeZaps. She used to love this place, then she somehow hated it. To my knowledge it's partly through how one or a few treated her.
She isn't my only example. When Aaron, myself and others would go post in POINTLESS Forum Games about close the forum, salty sceptile, etc: Xero and Sceptile kept closing our threads. Yes, we were immature I don't deny that but they didn't handle it maturely either. They kind of closed or deleted it without some legitimate reason. "Because you touch yourself at night." Doesn't exactly make you credible to justify your closings.
How we bring this back? Who knows? I still bring up Zach's post. We are all getting older. There only so much we can do. And it seems like this is our last carnation.