EDIT: You seem more committed than pretty much anyone else on the site.
Lol. At 0 commitment from the current staff, I think even a monkey with a keyboard would seem more committed.
I've visited every now and then myself and I agree the site definately needs some reform. News is a good place to start, the site definately needs a face lift again as well.
As for news, I can't really comment myself as I haven't really been following much of any current technology trends. If you ask me though, it's going to be tough luring people into the site when the forums don't really hold the latest trends. In other words, people can read the sh*t out of an article posted on the home page all they want, but if theres nothing that you can link the article to within the forums, then why would they feel the need to sign up? People usually sign up to ask questions about tutorials, files, mods, etc.
You're going to need a joint effort from administration to update the forums, as well as the moderators and any active members to start bringing content to the site. Write some tutorials, teach people about mods, upload files to the sites database.
I'll stop myself now before I make this into a novel, but if any admins are active and are willing to give this site a rehaul in order to revive this site from its current dormant state. PM me and I will gladly pass along my thoughts of what this site needs to keep members regularly visiting.