Annie has essentially no userbase outside of the people on IRC, presumably also as a result of the fact that it was so unstable before. Conlanging has also strongly remained on the Zeeb because there are things going on there and unlike new posts on a PHPBB changes to Universes here are not broadcast to other users, which is p bad on a "sharing things" view.
I guess also that nobody advertises this site anywhere, probably for the above reasons.
I guess my new year's resolution is to a) fix metaverses for Matrix (sorry Matrix!) b) try and make a page showing recent edits to Universes, with an indicator like the main forums button c) badger... idk Yatalac maybe to link annie on her canlanging tumblr.
EDIT: @Rhetorica use irssi imo