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For whatever it's worth: "get people to join" and "advertise" is probably not the focus you want to have. Forums are a community, and the best way to ensure success in a forum is to set it up so that people don't just join, but actively participate and form bonds with each other. A lot of admins, especially those just starting out, make this crucial mistake and then wonder why, despite having a lot of members and / or guest traffic, no one is posting and engaging.

The best way to start off is to figure out what type of community you want to build. Are you looking for hobbyists / collectors? Are you looking for a more general chat vibe with a special section for a particular interest? Are you looking for a particular kind of member? and so on.

At this time, my biggest criticism is that you haven't really done anything to encourage discussion. I clicked into a few of your more "discussion" themed threads, but they weren't made in such a way that it encourages anyone to participate. Example, the thread titled "Bells vs Sounders" in your discussion board: your opening post simply defines the two terms. You offer nothing of your own opinion, no direction in which the conversation would flow. What is a user supposed to do with this thread? How do they know they kind of response you're looking for? What about Bells vs Sounders do you want them to discuss?

You've got a lot of boards with a lot of threads, but if this one is any indication, the threads are all similarly structured to this.

You cannot expect to just create a bunch of threads and for people to just start posting and then boom, active and successful forum. If anything, you need to be the one to show people how you want members to interact. Show them by offering your opinion, your own thoughts on the topic at hand, rather than just being like "Bananas. Talk about them here." Being a forum admin means being a community manager; you can't expect a community to form on your forum spontaneously by advertising and getting people to join — you have to create a reason to get them to stay. 

It exists, but it's an opt-in feature on a per-user basis, to comply with privacy laws. You can turn them on for yourself by updating your notification preferences in your profile settings.

My recommendation would be to create a thread that lets your members know of the option, and encourage them to use it. However, you can't do it for them or set the feature to opt-in by default.

Hope this helps!

I don't think a plugin exists for this, but there are plenty of 3rd party sites that have embeddable maps for this purpose.

Is there something specific you want in this plugin that a third party version can't do? Or did you have a particular vision for the step by step user experience?

As mentioned in the past thread, this was marked as a feature request. That hasn't changed.

Unfortunately, all feature development has been suspended, both for the current version v5 and the future version v6, indefinitely. While this is still on the list of requests under consideration if development were to resume, I gently advise assuming that you will not be able to do this in the foreseeable future 

Totally fine, never know til you ask! And someone may still film this request of course, I just wanted to be transparent.