It's just a slow period, a lot of high-profile and regular posters have all become distracted at about the same time. I think TRF has seen worse slow-spots before, things should return to normal as soon as exciting stuff starts going on in the battlegrounds again to draw us all in.
I've been hit with a wall of homework recently, and I know Wes has been working his senior thesis for the past few weeks. But pretty much what Dolash said...