we want to be able to set a status message to display on the homepage, presumably just loaded from a file so we can change it while the server is running.
Implemented: just change text in _templates/motd.html and the server will refresh the homepage message at the same time it updates recentEvents (currently, every 5 minutes).
we want to be able to set a status message to display on the homepage, presumably just loaded from a file so we can change it while the server is running.