Back in the glory days of webDip there were live games daily, and usually several in one evening. What you would do was look at the number of people logged on, and if it was near 100 or more you could set up a live game to start in 10 minutes, post a message on the forum, and be pretty sure it would fill up.
Live games sadly went into decline as people shifted from playing via desktop computers to playing via phones, as it became trickier to write a message in a hurry. Around the same time an idiotic policy to restrict live game advertising to a single thread was introduced, because of some ridiculous notion that the forum was being clogged with too many diplomacy threads. This had the effect that anyone new trying to set up a game got a public telling off for their trouble.
So, live games starting dying off, and the site leadership lost interest. Live game clubs stopped being supported, the issue with the clock not matching the phase was ignored, and the whole system collapsed into something almost as bad as PlayDip.
Now that it is easier to play on this site via mobile there's hope it may return to what it used to be. Some support from the leadership, maybe recommending a good voice to text app that can be trained to recognise European provinces perhaps, and you never know...