I'm seeing a lot of 'that's what I've heard' about this, so how about a perspective from one of the many who was present during the event? 

[url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/1828/posts/ooc] Recent events, or in other words, what was GuildFall[/url]. Basically, we lost funding, the site crashed for weeks, and when it returned Mahz had the challenge of reconstructing everything. We had, I think still have, some level of access to what was on the old forum, though there's a bit of a time gap there. What we have now is the Guild reborn after some quantity of our population dispersed. We are a growing community again started anew. Some of the old faces are here, many really, but we also have a healthy portion of new members helping to get things back to the old strength. The link I gave before gives a more accurate account of what led to the lack of funding and some of the challenges we faced, hearsay and all that aside. 

It's also worth noting, during the GuildFall, many stayed in contact off-forum. Several roleplays continued after the break, as well as traditions such as Guild News, the WOTM, and soon the Irregulars. Our community is not dead. Our community is only dying in that some have lost faith -- fortunately, there are many who know the potential of this place and work to grow this as something better than what we knew before.