Back from a long break with some questions

[Vortivask]

Use to play this actively alot in 2003-2005 and have been on and off for the past 8 years, mainly off recently though, I did alot of ladder when I first played until I discovered custom games which I enjoyed too much as the variety was immense! Anyhow can't remember the last time I played but for sure there was actually people hosting lobbies (Unbelievable right?!) and now all I see is bots, everywhere.

Anyhow just some quick questions.

1. Is the game dead? Or to rephrase, how popular is the game?
2. Are there bots 24/7 everywhere?
3. How is the community, still large and friendly? Small and friendly even? Friendly I hope?
4. Do we see the variety of custom games we did years ago? I've had a browse and all I see is alot of bots hosting mostly DotA, some other custom games and a few standard wc3 maps (Wish WC3 had the SC2 browser).
5. Do blizzard provide any support to this game at all? Have they any future plans?

Hopefully someone active on the game could give me some insight.

Cheers, Vortivask

 

[MortAr]

1. Yes, but DotA keeps it steady.
2. Yes
3. Large, but quickly dying and quite friendly.
4. Variety not really but shitload of remakes, copies.
5. No, but they released few patches a while ago to fix some known bugs due to hacks.