having had a quick look at my terminal log it seems I share most if not all of those messages(before even logging in interestingly enough). Since it generally works for me(currently the server is acting up) I would suggest changing your graphic settings in the launcher and see if any of the options make a difference.

In discord it was mentioned that the Updater works again so you might want to try using the repair option in the launcher, or reinstalling and see if it now works for you.

So, I went and got the brewing quest, it asked me to make 3 dandelion wine barrels and 3 barrels of another wine. Since I know how much an annoyance it is to make (quite a bit less so than certain items from other skills but still) it got me musing pointlessly:

So according to a random recipe dandelion wine takes about 2.3 liters(230g) of dandelions to produce 3.75 litres of wine.[1]

In PS both the weight and size of dandelions are 0.1(which presumable is in kilogram and litre respectively as can be seen from ingots, assuming the metals are the same as their IRL counterparts. There are other items which don't follow this however.) so it would take between 12 and 123 of the ingame dandelion items to make a barrel. Or if the 0.1 is a placeholder then since it takes 75 dandelion to produce about 20 litres(not accounting for the barrel) then the volume and weight for a dandelion should be 0.16355.. ~= 0.16liters and 0.016kg respectively.

Meanwhile irl wine take ~40kg of grapes to make ~23 Liter(might be vastly different depending on specifics). Both Terevan and Joopiner berry bunches are 0.5 in weight and volume so you would need about 70 of them to make barrels of 20 litres as opposed to needing only 15 of them as is currently the case.

Personally I don't really mind that dandelion wine takes a lot of dandelions since it makes some sense, however the 15 pots of hot water on the other hand are annoying. I would instead either use the dandelions directly in the fruit press or use a mug of hot water instead of a pot of hot water.

Personally I would also increase the amount of terevan and joopiner(juiceberry and macca aswell I suppose) you need for a barrel of wine. or alternatively decrease the amount of dandelion you need. I'm more a fan of the former although it would "necessitate" 400 strength more than it already is.

The current economy makes the following point a bit moot so it doesn't really matter, however I would still like to see an increase the price of wine, especially dandelion wine. For barrels of ~200q the prices are as follows(storage withdraw tab)
Terevan: ~3800   (15.2C)
Joopiner: ~3600 (14.4 Circles)
Juiceberry: ~1300 (5.2C)
Dandelion: ~1200 (4.8C)
Macca:   ~1100   (4.4C)

So terevan/joopiner cost about three times as much yet they are easier to get since you can buy them amass from an npc a bit outside the forest. Dandelions/juiceberries however need to be picked up/gathered and their supply is more limited so they should cost more from a game mechanics perspective. There can ofcourse be good IC reasons why such wouldn't be the case.

Similarly 300q teas go for 675.(storage withdraw tab) I'm using 300q ones since it is relatively easy to make 300q teas while making 300q wine is (almost?) impossible unless I'm missing something(like high quality water buckets).

So a barrel of wine divides into 5 bottles and a bottle divides into 4 goblets or 20 goblets in total. each goblet would then cost 180 tria or three to four times less than a tea. Alternatively you could look at how much tea you could make with the dandelions required for a wine barrel, 75 teas. so 50,625 tria (202C) meaning that wine is 40 times less or so. I suppose you could argue that that's how it should be however since teas give buffs.

Basically I think it would be good to replace the "pots of hot water" with "mugs of hot water" or remove that step entirely, furthermore increase the price of dandelion wine to something more similar to joopiner/terevan or even more than those. Similar with juiceberry and macca although to a lesser degree. I would also make all the wines take roughly the same amount of ingredients as is currently the case for every wine except dandelion(same with melomel and ciders for that matter).

Anyway those are my thought on the topic

As the sole person setting up shop most times I'll be honest and agree that there are very few other stall and or customers nowadays. Going back a decent time(a year or so ago?) there was a bit more activity everymarket. Why? good question, maybe because most often there were two or more stalls.

Personally however I would prefer for the weekly markets to continue since I don't really have any faith in it being any better if it is monthly. And I actually still quite enjoy them since Damola stops by almost every week and some others stop by from time to time as well(once again however only a few). Last market was actually very nice although it maybe didn't have that much to do with the market as a concept itself other than as facilitation of a meeting. Besides that strange as it may sound, it's also something which makes me start up the game every week at least once.

As for rare items being sold by GMs and or engravers they used to bring some customers to the market most times there was one. A while ago I ICly suggested to an engraver that I could facilitate commissions between customers and the engraver but I haven't heard from the GM playing the character about it. Since they may not be available that often for the markets I thought I could play a middleman (since I'm there almost always regardless). It is my thought that that maybe would draw more people to the market since they could get their items engraved, a service which isn't otherwise widely available. Something similar could be done for items if the GMs want me to.

As for holding the market in the plaze, I'm fine with that but in my experience people passing through won't necessarily say hi, it happens occasionally that someone stumbles upon the market or passes through while there is one and doesn't pay it any attention or simple takes a quick look before going along(sometimes not even responding to a hello).

But that's just my thoughts on the matter which may be wrong.

I'm fairly sure the only client would be discord's own client, it is what it is I suppose.

Well, ICly it should probably contain more people than we gamewise see. For that matter I think the dome portion that we have access to lacks a bit in the way of food production. I suppose there would be enough meat though, being a game with respawning mobs and all and fish for that matter I suppose. Some of the plants are also edible as a salad or simply fruit. Hmm.. I suppose we just have a hunter gatherer diet then, mostly.

It's harder to track which channel something is said in/in which channel you need to say something, /1, /2, /3 can be easily mingled together.
With the current player count that may not be worth it.

However something which you made me consider that may be nice is a special "happenings", "activities" or something like that channel,
not to actually chat in but to create a channel in which to put automatic responses similar to a /who but from each player seperatly with what they are doing.

perhaps a simple explanation might be better.
Let's assume that we use /join activities to join the channel and it is assigned to /2, and that "/2 activities" is the command we agreed upon.

if player1 uses the command /2 activities then the following would happen:
[2: activities] player1: activities
[2: activities] player2: player2 is sitting on the ledge of the fountain reading a book.

This could be relatively easily achieved with a simple external program reading the log and activating a shortcut if the screen is active or notify player2 so he can manually use the shortcut if it isn't the active window. In a way it would be similar to the alerts for rp but work in a differn't way, and they could just aswel be combined actually. I'm not sure how much it would be used however.