It's definitely an engineering feat to even to get it to this point. Everyone I mention it to is impressed, though perhaps not enough to actually come join, unfortunately. Sadly (and it is sad), I think text-focused forums are a niche product now. Even on Reddit, meme-spam and help posts dominate any actual discussions.

Thinking about growing SN, I'd think about what products besides text forums the P2P micropayments backend can be extended to. I was thinking a model like Substack could work. By the way, Substack doesn't support Markdown which is a huuuuuuuuuge demotivator for tech-savvy creators and maybe something SN could capitalize on?