Quote Originally Posted by Gazprom View Post
By the time I joined the Discord, there was only me and Dagger I think who hadn't signed up to it. It gives the community strength, but it completely prevents outside people stumbling upon the fed. Unfortunately, with the low traffic here at the best of times, and WZ being even more dead, I don't think the tide could ever turn. So its about advertising elsewhere, on other efeds but I wouldn't even know where to start.

None of this was forseeable or anybody's fault, but it is the perfect storm that has put us in this position.
I am just going to comment on this, but stay out of more e-fed specific discussion.

The SCF does not (currently) have advertisements and there are no current plans to include advertisements. That means there is literally $0 coming into the forum and I host at a (relatively small, approx $100 a year) financial loss to myself. As you said, advertising is one way to get new members, but there is no forum money to put into something like that. So if you want to start advertising, you'll have to either be creative or figure out a way to pool some funds together.

Honestly, the best way to do it might be to just do social media advertising. Create a WZCW Facebook and Instagram or whatever else (if there is not already one) and start aggressively pushing content on a regular basis. But that would mean the fed would need a dedicated social media manager and, as you said, time is a big consideration.