Hey man, always nice to see old folks hanging around.
I myself joined VCMP around 2009, but there are a few people that used to play MTA before VCMP was even a thing. I think Charleyutton, Knucis, Thijn and others were among them.
The community still exists and we still have a good number of both active clans and events, with around 10 servers that still keep a solid playerbase, though it's not very consistent. Still, taking for example the VU clan, we have cca. 100 members as of now, so I'd say we're still running.
Hoping to see you ingame sometime