I think ATRL has seemed rather dead lately, and it's probably not just me. So let's talk about it.
New server. When the site goes down all the time, people give up and stop coming to ATRL, which makes everything dead when the site is actually up. But the word is, Joe has purchased a new server that will be able to handle all the traffic we can throw at it, or at least a lot more than our current one.
Plain and simple, Joe is the best webmaster you all could ever ask for, so you better appreciate what he does. He has to install stuff on the new server and it should be ready by the end of June or so, if I remember correctly.
The Lounge. Man, this place is pathetic. The bottom of page #1 still has posts from 11 days ago, geez! I feel like doing something radical, like creating a new general chatter area that combines what we now know as The Lounge and Blogs. It would be less organized, I guess, but there would be way more activity in just one place instead of two.
Live chat. We should really look into Mazen's suggestion of adding the Live Topic plugin feature, so we could chat in more-or-less real time on ATRL, or hook up a live chat that we'd do once a week or something, just to get people talking. Perhaps the
ATRL Twitter account could also be used for something more interesting.
What do you all think?
It's just as good as donating to charity!
it gets very lonely sometimes.
