Something I had been thinking of, was that yes, the community is small, but there also is no social media presence (or very little) to go by for the MFN community and the site itself. The FB page for MFN has 700+ likes, but no posts since 2017, same with the Twitter feed, so anybody who went searching on social media about it will see that and think the site is dead or worse, so they will avoid it.
Same goes for the YT presence, the help videos are great but nothing else. I’m sure in the many versions of the game, things have changed and it would be good to get new videos out there to help the new members of the community.
I know it does take a bit to do, and JDB may have a bit much on his hands to put some commitment into boosting it, but highlighting different leagues, sharing more about the game, offering tips and tricks to the game, getting a social media presence built up again, gets people talking about it. Obviously, private leagues are a different question, but for all the public leagues, you could share different leagues on a regular basis so they generate new owners, celebrate league champions and other big events in the leagues that are out there. You can have a Friday Question Time (just an idea of thought of) where JDB (or whoever runs the social media) puts out a question or something about MFN and gets people interacting with the thread by answering said question, and it again, turns into another avenue of community forums where people like us, who already play the game, can answer questions from those who are new or wanting to get involved in the community.
Another thing is the forums here. Not sure what sort of forum software is being used, but I’m confident that there would be a good amount of support for additional features such as more BBCode to allow for a wider ranger of customisation to threads such as colour, etc… and allowing leagues to customise their own league forums. I know for the private league I’m in, the trade block and rivalries forum area is barely used since we have a Discord that we use more than anything to discuss our league, trades and rivalries.
Just some thoughts here…