Yep...It's officially dead. No longer a link under the lounge so I now have to navigate out of the lounge to read and post political threads. I'll admit I'm Internet lazy and I've got way too many favorites links in on my browser already. It was a bummer it was moved to a separate forum in the first place but at least there was a window and link at the top so you could see who posted last and what topic. That was necessary due to the fact it slowed WAY down after the election.