So, the question popped up

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Oh, this is gonna be good. Blaming the victim is always fun!

Your over-blown and highly dramatic reactions are always good, I agree. But victim, really? Little/ineffective promotion. Sites? Mmhmm. A developer with a hostile and rude disposition toward anyone half-critical of him? Yeah, you're a victim alright.

Awww...what a letdown. I was hoping for something outrageous, instead I got something pathetic. A pity.

So sorry. I came to express my views on a project that I support. I apologize I don't have every bit of information you have, that I can make errors and don't think you're a poor victim of the circumstances.

Ares is not and never has been hosted on Renegade Projects.
Ares is a Strategy X hostee and its location at http://ares.strategy-x.com/ has always been broadcasted, including, but not limited to, the Ares readme coming with every release package.
You will find that the Ares site properly links to the news, forums and the bugtracker, as you expected.
Feel free to check the Web Archive if you need to check whether it's always been that way.

I will concede to being wrong in regards to Strategy-X and Renegade Projects. (however something suggests the management is the same)
However, if you look at the Ares site, the news is fed from Renegade Projects forums (news that isn't current) and the bugtracker ISN'T properly linked, given it has moved from the bughouse linked on the site.

So wait...the fact that both Nighthawk and I have, on multiple occasions, attempted to find someone to go to other forums and represent Ares is evidence that we shun a large chunk of the community?

More likely, this is just another point showing how little you actually know about what's going on here.
Maybe next to visiting chat, you should also catch up on Ares's news from the past year.

"Attempted" is the key word. Attempt doesn't imply success, and contrary to the popular notion, the thought isn't what counts. The results are what counts.

I would catch up with Ares news, but given that the only source of current info is an IRC chat, it's kinda trivial. I'm up to date up to September however.

I must say, though, that your entire argumentation looks a bit far-fetched: If you were so concerned about seeing activity, why didn't you just visit chat?

I haven't gone to the chat mostly due to inconsistent internet. My connection to IRC servers randomly drops without it telling me I've been disconnected (I'd realize only when I start typing messages in only for them not to show up) and after a while of this, I got sick of it. And when I had more consistent internet available, I was doing more meaningful things (coursework, projects, other games).

And the few times I visited chat since about, eh, September when I got sick of the disconnections...it was silent as a graveyard.

And that will be all I have to say.