I can tell you from the point of a scripting site owner that the rate of visits on my web site has dropped well over 40% in the last 4-5 months because of the lack of innovation and new mIRC version.
I know Khaled must be busy with some other stuff in his life, but the lack of news is killing the scripting community slowly. I, myself am trying to code some new stuff (extension DLLs) to help revive the scripting fervor of people by enabling new stuff, but without a new version of mIRC before the end of 2005, I don't think we'll revert to an increasing number in people interested in scripting as almost everything has been done already.
You can see the drop on most scripting channels and popular websites around.
