HOLDER'S PROFILE

It's certainly been up and down over the years, same for anything really. The popularity has its spikes when a new engine is released and some people stick around within the community. Things is it's whatever you're taking into consideration as to what community means as a whole. Newer means of sharing seems to spread people around. Forums have always been my preference but things like IRC moved a lot of people over to using that, facebook had it's groups, any social media.
Recently forums aren't as strong as they once were but they stand the test of time. Twitch has a small group of people sharing their development and also Discord looks like it's pretty strong.

Attitudes have certainly changed, because of the nature of how RM first got 'distributed' around the internet a lot of sharing of rips and free resources were very strong, then later being able to officially purchase the engine got people spending more time creating content. This led people creating resources at a price for their time. There's a good and bad side to that but the people are all mostly still genuinely nice and good people.

Been waiting on PSO2 for too long I'd almost forgot about it :/ I spent many hours on PSO for the DC, cost a lot also and stopped people calling the house.

PSOBB is brilliant, but since I didn't know or have anyone else to jump on with the later levels just seemed to drag and since I tend to be FOmarl it gets quite hard being solo and having team members who just dash and grab.