New Staff?

[AceInfinity]

Problem in a nutshell. First glance there is nothing exciting here. It's a reasonable looking forum but there is no WOW factor to entice joining or participation.

I GOT IT. I've got a great idea.

It's mainly because of the comparison that goes on in the minds of members that come from SF and think "HF vs. SF?"

This is a great reply though, the rest of what I didn't quote from your reply included. You point things out in a straightforward fashion and I can't say I disagree. The SF feather did have it's benefits, but now that those benefits are a bit less significant for how the community has progressed it was good that it got removed. I don't think this would have been the community it is now without the feather, perhaps the same forum, but less active, and probably with less changes as some of the members that helped instigate them to happen would have never known about SF in the first place.

Curious to see what this great idea is though

"Problem in a nutshell. First glance there is nothing exciting here." - I will say that this is a problem for most forums, unless your already one of those big forums with high enough SEO and good enough content or content in vast amounts that seems to attract people out there, as for some reason bigger forum seems to mean better for lots of viewers. It's just tougher here because when people go back to HF they see on their account 1000's of reps and awards everywhere, and this community where those things need to be earned, they may only have 1 or 2 rep at most, so there's no "treat" for them here. Especially coming from HF with that HF attitude where ego means everything...