I will continue suggesting making it paywalled behind cohost+ so only the most premium of posters remain but even that would probably not cover server costs + even a single staff salary 
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in reply to @catball's post:
in reply to @pendell's post:
That's the thing, it wasn't the money that was the final straw (as I understand it) so much as the burnout. If moving to mandatory subscription cut the traffic so much that the hosting became dramatically cheaper AND the support load became dramatically lower then it might have actually helped a lot.