I haven’t really been posting much in the last year or two but like a fly on the wall, I’ve continually been hanging around
I tend to believe that subscriptions to use the forum, although solving the immediate problem, could slow down or stop new members into the future. Peter Ward did have a good option of putting on a subscription onto the classifieds (i think this is better than a % of sales). The biggest wealth on this forum is the two decades of information and putting that behind a paywall could stop new growth.
Moving this forum to Facebook or Discord; not something that’ll work in my opinion. Forums allow for a topic separation that make them functional. Plus, there is so much knowledge that’s already on here!