Filters was the problem. I work 3-midnight every day but Sunday so opportunities to play on Thursday and Friday are few and far between. Though I've managed to remain employed and on this same shift for over 17 months now, there is of course always the chance I will be found out as a drunken incompetent lazy pig and be fired, and would therefore be able to play with you guys again.
I hope, with the influx of new players we will presumably get once the Russian front is released, we are prepared to find a way to return to 20-30 players at night. Obviously more than that would be great, but you don't need so many to have fun. Someone had the idea once of a way to text or Whatsapp or message in some way players once the server becomes populated (or even some kind of reminder notification on Thursdays and Fridays).
I don't know what the solution is. I just know not a night goes by I don't dream of all the fighting on WaW in the past, and that bittersweet mixture of American blood and English gin on my bayonette, so swiftly removed from Eightball's guts.