Honestly reading all of this makes me a little bit sad. My very first char was a gnome priest on Earthen Ring. I stopped playing after Legion. When I returned in Dragon Flight, the guild was renamed to ‘Just a Memory’ and most of the people jumped over to another server.
I made some toons on other servers and honestly haven’t spent too much time on ER since then. I’ll occasionally log into those old toons just for the heck of it, but that’s it.
Earthen Ring has a special place in my heart. And it sounds like it has a special place to many - wish blizz would help out low pop severs (other than labeling them ‘new players’) and just RP severs in general.