I agree. This place has been a ghost town for the past while (complete with shiny Gengars and Dusclopses, whee!) What can I say? It's exam season. I've still been playing, actually. No sightings.
Progress:
Fire Red: Still hunting in random places. I just evolved a Huntail (Atilla the Huntail ;)), so I'll effort train that.
Sapphire: Not hunting; working on BoxDex. 1 Surskit (Roselia patch)
Emerald: Nearly got swept by a certain Swellow in Norman's gym's Speed Room, so I'm gonna train my whole team to L36 in the desert, so who knows, maybe a shiny Trapinch is waiting there?