Best of wishes to Lakerzz8, in his retirement and congrats to Pezstar on the promotion
As to the new policy, fair enough, I'd disagree though. I find it's a nice way to get alliance members out and into other alliance's spam/off-topic forums. Not much else gets posted in embassies besides the occasional news update, sure. But it's the getting alliance members interacting with others on the spam/off-topic forums that matters, as then they improve relations
Good luck though