Need explanation about sending lives

I had my lives full at 200 for a long time. I did not use them for a long time but then when I did they did not get replenished, so this seems to be happening to everybody.

Maybe this is the cause: Remember how suddenly King reduced the lives you were allowed to use from friends to 20 per 24 hour. This meant many of us accumulated 200 lives we weren't allowed to use. I had so many lives I could NOT use that I became complacent and no longer requested or sent lives. I can imagine that like myself at this point a lot of players who had those 200 lives in their in box stopped sending and requesting lives thinking "What's the point?". Also at the same time King introduced harder and harder levels (legendary, no more lucky boards, players stuck for weeks on one level...) which probably caused a lot of my friends to quit the game altogether. They no longer exist in the Candy Crush world and we should all make a clear out of our friends list. There is no point sending lives to someone who has deleted the game.

My suggestion is: Note which level your friends are on. It says so in my friends list (not the envelope but if I click on my icon and then on "friends") If they are still on the same level a week or two later then they probably no longer play Candy Crush and should be deleted. Invite new friends instead, using those suggested by the game. Send and request lives from every friend on your list daily (or more often) and see what happens. I now do receive lives again, but only since I started requesting them. Some of my old friends have stopped sending them and I fear they no longer play, but some of the new friends send lives regularly. The system isn't broken, but too many players have disappeared from the game whilst their icons are still in your list.

That is a common complaint lately Brooklyn. Personally I don't suffer from the same issue yet, but I don't play that often or for long. When I do play it is rare that I use all of my twenty lives. When I do/did I always received enough lives to keep my lives at 200. This was still the case when we could use twenty lives every six hours.

Personally I think what has caused your issue of not receiving lives is the recent removal of the level ranking. The level ranking that appeared at the bottom of a level also inlcuded the Send Lives button. It would appear that the removal of the Send Lives button has stopped a lot of people sending lives. It is unclear if they have stopped because they don't know they can still send lives, or they have stopped as a protest.

The result of all this is that if you want to receive lives you have to request them now as people can no longer send them to you easily otherwise.