I guess it depends on the individual RP. I've only been involved in one Hetalia RP for the past three years and it's usually been really active. It's just this year that it's really slowed down. Everyone's been super busy, but we're hanging in there. Of course it's chat-based, not blog/forum-based (and ironically I don't have it listed fff...)

So you could be right. It's hard to judge from just a glance sometimes.

I do follow some non-RP comms though and they're slow too. Aiyaa..