Ajaya Bliss has been pretty regularly empty whenever i go in nowadays. It used to -always- be full. Thats where i first really started experiencing the "community" of Glitch.
It's interesting ... I hope we don't see a suburbanization with R3, where everyone holes up in their house b/c they've got "everything they need" except others!
I suspect the need for metal, snails, and other metal items is driving people away from sparkly for now; they need the materials to build out housing. Once that dies down (especially when the butlers and crafty-bots show up) you may see the miners back in AJ (and Callopee and other mining hot spots).