I'm also surprised by the relative lack of members and posts on this forum. it also seems that 10% of the membership make 90% of the noise. I'll do my best to make it 11%.
Pareto! Oh, the good ol' 80/20 rule
I don't think that participation is the issue really. You are never going to get THAT many people posting all the time, but the trick is to offer a lot of different people the chance to post from time to time.
The important thing for this forum is that, to paraphrase a certain movie, we use it as a force for good and make things better around here, not simply moan about things. I feel that so far this is the case and it marks out SE23 from most other areas.
I hope that re-registration and learning a new system is not a turn off for to many of the old participants and we get the old buzz back on the boards.