Whats the relation between the 15 min server down and solving the population problem? Assuming that there is a population problem, because if not, is just a high pop server, what most of us like, even the devs want that. If you look the twitter account they posted a twet saying they have reached over 10k online players.
Also, stop opening threads about this issue. Devs are not going to change one thing only because few polayers want it. You are not special.