Oh wow Tangy. I'm really sorry to hear that. Didn't mean to put any added stress on you. I hope everything is okay 

dealing with a health issue in the family and i can't do anything else for the server right now

its running, its basically upto date, thats all i can do for now

Hijacking this post because its kind of relevant. Any possibility of getting a new main map before Summer? I think that might help draw in a new crowd with school kids being on break and whatnot. It also probably wouldn't hurt to get completely upgraded to the newest version (though I know that's a bit more of a challenge for our particular server). I know that's kind of a lot to ask for, especially with everyone being so busy and otherwise occupied right now. I just don't want to see this community go away! I think we've got a good thing here.

Tangy, if you need help or support of any kind, let us know! I think there are quite a few of us that would love to help out in any way we can.

The servers been rather empty as of late. I think it may be time to do some minor advertising to attract new players. Maybe a simple reddit or minecraftforum thread.

It's become a rather prevalent issue among us to launch the game, see no one on, close it, and try again in a week. With the current cycle no ones ever around because the current player base is only going on the server to see if anyone else is on, and since no one sticks around longer than the couple seconds it takes to press tab and check the player list, no one plays.

With some new faces around it'd encourage the senior players to return simply do to there being others to play with.

I've come to really love Discord (And that's despite my open source philosophy ) I think this will be a huge help! Thanks AIO!

hey shanghai, glad you're employed and spending time with friends through these trying times, life has also gotten in the way of me playing as much as I use to.  I'm in the middle of my second semester at community college doing 15 credit hours, most are computer classes.  When I'm not doing homework I usually have free time on the weekends but noone else is ever online so I don't play anymore.  the only game I play these days is star wars battlefront 2 for pc which I've been playing for 10 years now and also has a small, tight-knit community, but is nothing like minecraft.  I'm always on steam and skype if anyone wants to chat, plus if the discord plugin becomes a thing I'll be there too.  the main reason I've played this game for nearly 5 years now is because of this server and its community.  even if minecraft or the server does eventually die out, i'm confident our friendships will live on, perhaps in a new game

if this can be hooked up to the server I think that would be great

I've been wanting an out-of-game chat system like the IRC we use to have

though that was before channels and colored ranks were added

if all that is required is an installation of a plugin and no reconfiguration of any coding then I say go for it

Heya shanghai just wanted to say I wish ya the best in life you are a very kind person hope the jobs going well and we see ya around still one of our favorite people Hehe take care bro,  on another note I've also been playing Ark the PC version me and my brother rented a small server for us and a few irl friends  to play on there are a bunch of glitches that piss ya off but it's still fun and addictive but it has pretty high system requirements so I'm sure a lot of people out there can't run it

Thank you both for your kind words. Just wanted to let you guys know that I appreciate it.

Good news; i tried DiscordMC plugin on a test server and it worked like a charm. I've set up the bot already so all need is the plugin installation. What version is this server running anyway? Spigot, Craftbukkit?