Are things slower around here?

[StarSock64]

You essentially listed everything anyone would use the sprites deposited on this site for. What exactly is it you desire people to do with these assets? To me this sort of attitude is practically saying "Whelp, might as well just shut the site down".

I use the site regularly as a reference for my own custom work. The forum itself used to get along just fine being a place to get C&C and learn how to improve. It's not like that's completely stopped, either, given that there is still activity in the S&PA section. There appears to be more activity there than the games development fangame threads. You can't force an interest in fangames where there is none, but you can improve and encourage the already-present interest in learning how to make custom works.