I’m really glad you’re in a better spot now. Definitely hoping you can keep that trajectory.
My eyes popped at 350/month. That’s… that’s a lot. Around us $750 gets you two cords and that’s enough to heat our space all winter (but the house is <1200 square feet so it doesn’t take much).
Part of me has been enjoying the recent finding out going on. Maybe it’s because properly linked and referenced sourcing is cool and saying where someone got an idea doesn’t devalue how they’re implementing it. Maybe it’s because the people who are working on projects similar to my own are colleagues and not competition, since we all do better when we all do better.
Power’s out - we’re seeing wind gusts over 50mph and have gotten a little over two inches of rain since last night. Currently waiting for the lowest-ranked-in-the-US power company to repair things. Two trees snapped off their trunks about eight feet off the ground and landed just a few feet from our duck yard, so at least I don’t have to fix any fencing.
Edit: power’s back! Met two nice folks from Canada who were down this way to do repairs and convinced them to take a tree off a line even though it wasn’t in their task list.
I don’t think I’ve come across a server without upvotes, though some disable downvotes. That said, the vote tally means less to me than someone saying “that’s neat, thanks for sharing!”, and that definitely adds to the vibe as well as the conversation. I encourage you to do that, to the level you’re comfortable with
One thing I noticed is that the site doesn’t have any mission statement or “about us” (that I could find). That’s an opportunity to include not just information about yourselves, but also to communicate to potential users when they’re looking for a trustworthy source on this topic. That “about us” or “our mission” page with declarative statements is what search engines will pull teaser blurbs from much of the time.
Something else that I picked up from my last SEO coaching is that you’ll be more likely to be seen if there are other places that point back to you. With ~200 people contributing to answering questions, if even half of them linked back to the site from their own blogs, channels, or sites you’re likely to see a difference in your search ranking. It’s a bonus that folks who are looking at those contributor’s pages will have the ability to come right to your space as well.
Big fight in dire straits, but the group has been having a session that’s helped you flesh it all out more and they’ve been doing deeds in alignment with the cleric’s deity? Shenanigan. Maybe you pass a note to the cleric later to entice them with a quest. Troubling dreams, seek out a shrine, the whole party has the same dream.
Same situation but they earned a bit of a walloping and should have the resources to win or the intellect to run? Shenanigannot.