[RileyJames]

What kind of monthly users do you get?

I’m part of a lot of landcruiser related groups / sites (ih8mud being the biggest).

They’re such a wealth of information, and much of which pertains to:

- where to go (travel)

- what to get (accessories)

- how to fix / do (repairs / upgrades)

I’m surprised there’s not more opportunity to monetise sites built around a reasonably expensive hobby.

[Gordonjcp]

There's a core of a couple of dozen users who post most days, a few folk who drop in and out, and some very very prolific posters including the co-founder whose post count has spiked since he retired :-D

I'm not sure really what it costs to run, a couple of hundred quid a year. It'd be nice if adverts were bringing in enough for it to wash its face but I feel that the presence of adverts diminishes the user experience more than the value they create.

I'm fortunate in that I'm running servers already for other hobby projects so the cost is already sunk. If I wanted to spin up another FlaskBB forum I'd be using literally everything that already exists and the cost would be pretty much just the domain name.