There's already quite a lot of 1.9 plugins available (WorldEdit has been 'unofficialy' updated) . Of course, I don't know what plugins the server has so I don't really know.
Now that I think about it, there's probably gonna be a world reset when we reach 1.9 . We've been on this world for quite a while and it may simply be needed for updating PlotSquared.
True. I wouldn't mind a world reset, as long as personal worlds aren't affected. I am also happy to use my world as a "lifeboat", so people can copypaste their builds into my world, then take them out when we get into 1.9.
i think another factor that contributes to the server sort of dying is most of us are growing up and spending less time on the server cuz we have other interests