are new servers still popular ?

Do small servers still have a chance to grow ? do you guys have a populated server?

Will probably be a hard market.... Unless you do something original and cool with your server, or somehow advertise it?

To be a former Minecraft player, no.
The new servers find it very difficult to make a stable and solid place in time, especially due to the domination of large servers of the Hypixel style etc

I think so, yes. It is still very difficult though and it depends the stuffs you offer and how different it is from most servers.

I would say its going to be hard for a small, new server to become popular. But if you can make something eyecatching and different, not impossible.

Speaking from experience, it's possible but incredibly difficult.

There are a few ways to grow your server but if you don't have a playerbase to start with it is going to be much harder to do so. You'll need a unique idea/server that not many people have yet, and you'd need to pull it off really well.

If you play with friends it wont matter if the server is big or small tbh

Yes, there is, but its worth buying advertising, it will be easier to develop, and breathe.

idk, not so many people play minecraft anymore, its mostly og's comming back to play on the nostalgic hypixel and cubecraft

There're like 1000 million server so yeah it could be pretty difficult to make yours popular.... usually those server lasts a few weeks-months