The forums never went down after the servers shut down, but they have obviously seen less use over time. There is very little cost to keeping the forums up, so I don't really see any reason to take them down.
Besides, every once and awhile an old face like yourself stops by, so that's pretty awesome too.
There's still gaming going on, but it seems everyone kind of games in their own smaller cliques these days. I know a bunch of guys are starting to play Battlefield 3, and I know many are looking forward to Diablo 3 later this year.
Hell... most of us have jobs these days which is a double edged sword. More money to pay for more server more freely. Less time to play on the server for which we can now afford to pay. But I'd spend portions of that free time in some old fashioned fd_assault... for nostalgia, at least.
Speaking of nostalgia... #lanbq-redux? Venue ideas? Conversation hijack?