Sponsored posts: what to charge? — follow-up

I ditched GA for a lightweight self-hosted analytics tool and lost nothing I actually used.

The hardest part of a new forum is the first hundred real members — everything before that is setup.

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

The empty-room problem is real — seed quality discussions early.

Core Web Vitals compliance took me a weekend and showed results in a month.

The empty-room problem is real — seed quality discussions early.

Self-hosted analytics is so much calmer to work with.

The empty-room problem is real — seed quality discussions early.

Comparisons convert way better than reviews for me too.