Yes, Ed went with a new format a while back and there are about 4,000 members now. It's a lot busier this time of year but has pretty good activity year around now.
Come check out the FlashChat sometime in the evening. There's usually some folks there between 8:00 and 10:00 Central. It doesn't show any history so you have to stick around a while to see what's going on. I see a lot of folks log in and log out before anyone has time to make a post or reply to them if they make a post so apparently they think no one is chatting (or the person they are looking for isn't there).