it probably not a good idea to play on Popham or purchase store items for that server. I want to put this somewhere to help the new players but i couldn't figure out how to add this to the announcement section of these forums. Maybe one of the developers can add it.
When I was a noob people would openly lie on the forums about servers getting shut down, it was a good time. I suppose they could make it clearer, just PM TotalyMeow and see if she will edit the Announcement post to make it clearer that Popham shouldn't be played on.