I rarely even see him, much less communicate with him. I am also afraid of getting pushy.
I fear pushy may be the way to go. Dire has a very long list of mods to do, but I feel he doesn't really get around to even testing most of them. Despite this, your mods definitely deserve a spotlight. Dire really needs to mix his pack up a little, we don't want to see him do the same thing again. He pretty much just repeats whatever he does on Forgecraft in his SSP world. He should try to add some new mods.