How can it be on the front page of HN without any players in it? Or is that a bug as well? I'm flying around in a near-pristine and empty world. [edit] I dug a hole, fell through, respawned, fell through my own hole. I'm sorry. I'm afraid everyone will fall through it now.
When you made that comment, it was the middle of the night here. Everyone was online at USA after-work hours.
The reason the world was near-pristine was because I messed up the storage for this deployment, which made so every once in a while it would regenerate the chunks.