Don't even joke about that!

It looked like the most recent wave of erlang threads - or the one around the time when _why disappeared - got deleted by the admins.

I was really disappointed by that, since it seems like it was the unofficial way for the community to signal large scale concern over the quality of the site.

It would be nice to have another channel to replace it.

Erlang is a great language (and a great way to design a language as well), it really does a disservice to all that using it as a way to drown out unwanted conversations.

At a minimum I would suggest a mix of Erlang, Lisp, Scala and Clojure articles. Besides being more even handed it probably will be more useful.