I never played M59, but heard about it endlessly as "the good old days" when I played EverQuest.
Every few years I Google for happenings on the EQ server I frequented in 1999. There have been all sorts of mergers and consolidations, but it appears a number of people are still playing regularly 15.5 years later and still arguing about the exact same things.
It's like dropping onto Skull Island[1].