Searching around found this only: https://www.ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/town-chat-channels-are-being-removed.121780/
They don’t need to be big in number, but in what the accomplish. If they can create amazing, and hopefully interactive towns, they’re creating content for the server. The players will follow.
I think the older players don't want to create that content because they don't want to make things when there is no player base to show it off to/ sell plots too. I don't know I think if we had a lot of builders we would have a lot of players still selling builder plots.