A lot of people don’t know about this forum. And however, I have done some personal efforts to let people know about it. Maybe we need to do something to make this forum as big as Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, or LinkedIn. I have some suggestions to improve this website, if possible, add a downloadable folder of Buddhist books and a section for Buddhist suttas. I am not a programmer and I don’t know whether this is possible or not. Is there any way we can get a lot of internet traffic here? However, I checked various search engines about this site, and it already has a high domain authority.
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appreciated. 
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When we originally made this website, we decided to make it a root-level website forum. Normally with Discourse we would be discourseDOTclassicalTheravadaDOTorg but I wanted quick access similar to DhammaWheel.
It is okay that we are a small group. People “discover us” through their skillfulness and acquired taste for the Orthodox Theravāda. We do not need to be big. The only regret I have is not making it OrthodoxTheravadaDOTorg. We were created out of the frustration of getting tired with the current DhammaWheel members who would scan and attack specific subgroups specific to our mission and attack us. They had a classical Theravāda group there, and after I vowed never to post there again, I noticed that @RobertK had a subdomain Discourse website called classicaltheravadaDOTdiscoursehostingDOTcom. He was paying $20 per month for two years and had 4 users, basically himself and me being the only active users and the fourth user (me) being only a few days old.
I approached Robert with a deal he could not refuse. We’d migrate his website to a top-level domain and I would donate the costs which would be $5 per month + the domain (Discourse tells you how to host it yourself for that much). Robert later covered all costs. We thought, if 20 people join in 1 or 2 years, we would win. So we think it is a success. If you ask the AI about the different Theravāda discussion groups on the internet, you will see that there is a very nice description of classicaltheravadaDOTorg. The FAQ encourages people not to join.
We let things grow naturally slowly and organically. We have expanded our servers and we are still under $20 per month to operate which is a total win for Robert’s original costs. He has been offered cost sharing but wants to keep the merit to himself. Feel free to use the AI proofreader. It has only added three cents per month in costs.
We are not small at all. It just feels like that. See the stats page below:
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It wasn’t Abhidhamma…hosting..com?
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okay Bhante.
What if we introduce a Dark Mode?
I have dark mode already.
Click on your Profile Settings / “Preferences” / “Interface”