this was... a very long time ago but i remember when this really good feature was integrated where, upon hovering over the far right side of the forum/sight, you'd get an (almost) real-time update of how many players were in a map / which map / etc. anyway i feel like now, despite there being so many new maps, that would be helpful more than ever.
i haven't romped around in game too much but everything is definitely a LOT more spread out thus advertising for roleplays or just general chatting is (as i can imagine) probably a lot harder to go about. if people could know the highest density of players it'd help with more frequent interaction, as this is a chat-based game, as well as help w/ advertising in a more traditionalist way for roleplay groups. i can see how there might be some issues but honestly they're...... easy fixes. when this existed custom maps and the density of players there were included so naturally the whole list went a bit off-page, but with the most player-used map listed on top and the number descending therefrom, it shouldn't be much of an issue. of course i have no idea how this system was originally integrated just that it was super neat& very convenient.