TBH, I wouldn't read anything into the 65,500 members. I run a busy forum and less than 2% of my registered members are actually active regularly. Many register, but only lurk so they can take advantage of the cookie thing where read posts are remembered etc and many have registered once as it seemed like a good idea then never or rarely come back. Of those 65,500 members I reckon you'd be lucky to find 700 who were posting with any degree of regularity - and, having seen the quality of posts on SN, I have doubts you'd even want to read most of them. [8-)] I won't argue with you on the forum layout on here though.
Don't blame you for thinking that, but it ain't true.....unless your talking about the Scottish section. []
If you actually spend some time on SNET, you'll find that there are many thousand people posting regularly.
I actually find this rather funny, as some moved away from being "sectioned out" in SNET, but they moved here and when you look at the details, they are sectioned out of the rest of SIDC. []