Divinity 2.0 was just what they labeled it after all of the patches, it was more marketing than anything, there was no wipe. Divinity eventually got shutdown by Ryan, it was one of the few servers what didn't "die off". I've spoken to the shard admins and they are not planning to shut it down after a few months because they've poured so much work into the scripts and the server already.

The population problem is one of those catch 22s. Not playing because of low pop does nothing to increase the pop. You know UO servers are snowballs, the more people get on the more people will join. There are approximately 2000 t2a era fans out there and with UO An Corp down and no IPY the only t2a options are Second Age. A lot of people are on UOF because it's the popular shard right now, not because they like mounts and UOR's garbage PVP. And UOF's staff can suck a green hairy ballsack!