Thanks, but I'm not quite sure what the question is. So I'll guess.
The forum is 7 months old and we have a bit over 100 users. But many of those users were previously or still are active members on another forum, so know each other to some extent. And I was able to model my forum from the other one, which got us started fairly quickly.
However, it is possible that you aren't differentiating between the forum itself and the website. The forum resides on Nabble's servers and the website resides on Weebly's servers.
Did I answer the question?