A lot of people were pseudo-active in the last year or so. The place does not seem to be as popular as it used to be. But yea I graduated in mid 2016 actually. Moved across the country right after too.
I remember you used to write alot of articles that created loads of discussion on the frontpage. I miss those days. It felt like the overall site was alot more active.
I thought that had pretty much been the case since 2015. I actually recently applied for a frontpage writing position, but I screwed up. I sent a rough draft to show I could come up with good Zelda topics, but forgot to clarify it was a rough draft. So it got looked over like it was actually the limit to my writing skill. I'll give it another try, and next time I won't send anything that is unfinished.
A completely new crew takes care of the front page now since the merger so I honestly have no idea what their criteria is anymore. I have never really looked into it at all since the front page stuff was handled by the ZI staff and I was last in a ZI chat in 2012.
Their forum was not doing so well around the time of the merger and a lot of them left anyway. It was only a small few that stuck around for the community stuff. Their main site team did stick around but they never really do much forum stuff.