[2019] Do players look for long-term servers?

Myself and a few active players started a server with the intention of playing long-term and really building up the city and other areas. We had the usual amount of players drop out and are now trying to focus on tackling the meteor to then work on other infrastructure and continue long-term. What I want to know is should we expect people to join a server that is so far along (16 days) with the view to play long-term or will numbers just continue to dwindle until everyone gives up? Also, if anyone is looking for a long term server hit me up!