Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members?

[codinghorror]

I had some time to read through the Modest proposal, and we are testing a plugin that allows communities to contribute toward their own hosting costs.

Surely there’s got to be enthusiasm for the fighting ignorance problem – I know we at Discourse are willing to contribute toward that goal. That’s kinda the whole point!

@Cecil_Adams

I can see there are some who’d prefer to skip to plan B to start with. Patience. I’ve proposed to management that we conduct a three-month trial. During that time we’d need to achieve three defined objectives. The first is that we’d need sign up X number of subscribers at Y dollars by Z date (or anyway we’d need to raise X times Y amount). The second is that Little Ed and I would have to be able to get the column out each week without assistance. The third is that the envisioned collaboration with the Membership - I’m trying that on for size - would actually have to work.

I don’t know if @Cecil_Adams is still interested, but we’ll contact him!