mhesseltine's Journal: Can we PLEASE use the /. topic

Ok, I just noticed that the friend/fan/foe/freak icons just became smiley faces. This, in and of itself, is a small, yet interesting change. Unfortunately, there never seems to be any kind of announcement as to what changes on the backend of Slashdot.

My proposal is this; there exists a Slashdot topic. Why can't we have a once a week/month/quarter/something discussion under that topic where Taco and crew could post new features, scheduled outages, and offer users a chance to discuss the site workings without being offtopic? Those who aren't interested could ignore the topic, just like every other topic on /.