By the way - my long posting (above) was not meant to throw rocks at anybody.
Most forums today are slowly dying. I don't know any forums that are actually growing. There are lots of reasons for that - changing lifestyles, changing technology (texting, Facebook, Myspace, blogging, and see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rking_websites)
The intended message was: if you're running a forum, and it's surviving, then you're doing OK. Don't be disappointed because it's not growing.