My apologies for not seeing this sooner, I've been really busy the last few months, the games are pretty random at the moment but they are played, The forum isn't too bad a place to arrange it, IRC (#hard-light), isn't a terrible place to ask if you have a little while to wait.
Also, just starting a game and letting people see you're on sometimes brings a person or two out of the woodwork, it's a bit luck based at the moment, but there are games out there to be played.
2PM EST isn't a terrible time to check, looking a bit later than that (5PM-8PM) is around where most of them used to be played.