After one week, would it be fair to now assume that the admins' answer to your question “should we talk” is a resounding “no”? Disappointed but not surprised

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How much should it cost to run a forum like this based on modern SW?
You can get an idea of what pricing look like with these offers:
- Discourse: https://www.discourse.org/pricing
- NodeBB: https://nodebb.org/pricing

Note that the pricing for both includes hosting on their own server and support from their teams. It's also possible to use these software for free if self-hosting them, which would probably be much cheaper, but then this would likely come with the same drawbacks as we have been experiencing with sharetrader: performance issues, unresponsive admins, admins not tech-savvy enough, ...

Also note that some sort of migration from one forum platform to another is usually offered, as a way to attract existing users.