# What are some common breaking points as communities grow? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-some-common-breaking-points-as-communities-grow/402716 **Category:** Enterprise **Tags:** enterprise-ready **Created:** [May 11, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-some-common-breaking-points-as-communities-grow/402716 "2026-05-11T23:52:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![ice.d](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ice.d/32/509515_2.png) [@ice.d](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ice.d) #### Post date: [May 14, 2026, 12:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-some-common-breaking-points-as-communities-grow/402716/7 "2026-05-14T00:47:42Z")
> [@HAWK](#): > > moderation gaps This is a mini-challenge for me. As leader of the Mod-admin team forum not owner but leader of making sure our staff do what’s right and to make sure we have the right amount of staff on our forum, Sometimes I feel like as one of the more active staff members i feel like i carry a mini-burden. Many times i consider talking to a user who gets semi-active into possibly giving them moderator to help take my burden off a little like dealing with user-based infractions like spamming harrasment but then they go-away for sometime. Sometimes i ask my self… > Does the fact that our forum’s owner/creator continue to go offline for sometime and not interact among the community lower people’s wanting to post and contribute to a forum that’s really small? Here’s why, Last year i joined and the forum was moderately active then summer hit and it plummeted the DAU/MAU was Horrible and so was the Stickiness of the forum. then this year it failed a lot to regian speed and the owner rarley was active then recently the forum was down a lot and i got a lot of messages from users on other websites asking why the forum was down so i had to explain the reason (something with the forum’s server according to the email i got from owner) and finally when it came back a few users started posting in the chat and being semi-active but thats when i got sad i knew my burden is harder again if we keep it up as active because our three other admins werent super acrtive but i knew it was good but now it’s dead again and my question lingers in my mind --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-some-common-breaking-points-as-communities-grow/402716)._