Well I played it and remember those days. Really great memories and nice events. There was one based on 169th... about 100 people, insane amount. Been proudly assigned to AWACS escort in Su-33 :) Succesfully fulfilled my job as same as rest of the team. We defeated dirty capitalists :D
HyperLobby was nice too, sometimes it was really funny to read messaged between folks like "you moron" for killing someone on ground :D
Now there is emptiness, something has been lost. Perhaps people grew up, finished school, studies, started families and went own way.
But ED didn't help much, ServerBrowser is a pile of crap, no VoIP, no chat app and plenty of other things.
Not mentioning insane DCS requirements for the level of GFX it offers.