MT is not Dying, at least not for me, it has became a huge community now, more like a social site, but we still have new
wallpapers from current artists who are awesome too.
I know MT for more than 3 years and I've seen a downfall in walls, most of old wallers who were awesome (like
Sakuradust, Chrisp etc.) are busy in real life.
Even most of my old friends back then when I was new here are busy in real life, most of them have job so they are
busy.
But you can see there are many new wallers who are trying to contribute the site, for keeping it alive, we have new
scans almost everyday and about Indy art many artists still submit it, even I as an Traditional art artist is busy but I
try my best to submit arts time to time.
We have Elite wallers who helps happily, rookie artists to improve their art like how Valuna said.
Many of Rookie artist at your time are now Elite artists, things are changing and busy life is driving us all crazy but
to think of it that there are still new artworks coming time to time is enough to make our Beloved site Alive.
Compare to the time when I was new here, I've seen a rise in wallpaper quality too (not in all but some walls are
of Extremely high quality like Elisa's, Painter's, Val's, Baraka-sempai's, Cilou's and
others').
Forums are not so active, but we try our best to keep them active, very most reason of inactivity in forums are lack of
topics that can be discussed.Off topics are running fine though.
Last year MT completed its Decade and we celebrated it with contests, and we get huge amount of awesome walls there, and
Mods still try their best by contests and events once an year.
Ups and downs comes in every point but it doesn't mean we will let our beloved site to die that easily.
As for a group for increasing wallers' skill we have one http://wallpaper-games-2.minitokyo.net/
Considering your point, I will try to upload as much as Artworks I can now, I don't want MT to be less active.