The link at the top that goes to News, shows the last update as being June 2010.

I'm trying to recruit and people are telling me that the game looks dead because the last news update is June 2010.

Please make my recruiting easier by updating this news page.

it goes to blog which hasn't been used since early era, give them link to announcements board.

Then make a post on it stating this information or remove the News link. It looks like the game is dead, or that the admins are not active.

It's probably best to just remove it at this point.

qz has left it there for some reason.

well, if the few people that I have invited over the past couple days to play have noticed this, imagine how many others have decided not to play over the past couple years due to this.

If our goal is to increase membership and this is driving people away (even if it's just a few), then let's take care of it before it drives any more away. One person could end up becoming a hundred just by spreading the word, or could result in the loss of a hundred if that one doesn't join.

I've got an email list of 1800. I've got over 400 facebook friends. I'm sure I could recruit 10 people from all those, possibly more. One of those 10 might be able to recruit 10 more, and so on.

qz, please remove the news link since it is now over 2 years old and looks dead. There is no good reason to keep it there now.

the plan is to migrate to this sort of look; i just need more time

qz, I totally understand the need for time and I don't fault you for it. I just ask that you remove the link for now, until you do get time to make that page active again. Right now, it's a useless page since the information is over two years old. It shouldn't be too time consuming to hide the link for now.

I agree or simply redirect it to the announcements board which is fairly active.
If you don't have time to do that, I beg you take on another developer. These little things all can help.

I suppose I could just redirect it to announcements.

Done ;)

Apparently the header does not pull it's code from one place.

When I am inside the alliance server, looking at my main page, the news link still goes to game_news, but after I click it and I'm looking at the old game_news page, the link goes to announcements.

I'm not sure why the header would have more than one source code, but it seems that this is more work than I thought it would be.

ah, there's a public skin and an ingame skin; forgot about that...

news link within alliance game still points to game_news.