I'll share a funny story about the hotline for anyone that cares.
For years, and I'm talking like 12-15 years, the website was my home page to when I opened a browser.
That way, the first thing every day I would see was if there was any new NIN news.
Well, fast forward to last month (or maybe rewind to last month, depends how you look at it), I got a new PC for my birthday.
I had to transfer all my files and set everything back up to my liking.
When I opened an internet browser, it went to a generic "most frequently visited sites" page. I thought for a second, this isn't right... I need to get the hotline back...
Then I stopped myself and said "fuck it. That site has been dead for years, no sense putting it back" and I never did.... until now.
I had no idea that the hotline was secretly being re-invented. Had I known, I would have just kept it. I think it would have been a better surprise if I never got a new PC and then one day, I loaded up a browser, and the hotline would have been updated with a new look, I would have been blown away.
I was probably single-handedly keeping the traffic numbers up myself all these years, lol.