There would hardly be a million visitors with no content - let’s talk real figures and real boards Jeff.
Have you asked yourself why it seems a disproportionate number of Discourse forums don’t last very long? I wondered why that might be the case when I looked at the “Visit our forum” topic recently.
Truth is people like to be part of an active community, and anything we can do to show that would be a positive thing surely?
I think it’s quite telling that one of the most downloaded plug-ins for other forum software is the who’e been online plugins.