Thank you for taking the time to leave your honest feedback here - everyone that voices their thoughts here is helping us tremendously.
The key here is finding new and accessible ways for people to become involved in the community and incentivize their participation - that was the biggest concern for a possible front-end.
It seems like the community would rather trade a new front-end for other practical utility/tool sites, which we have also been exploring and planning out. We have a few projects currently underway that we hope to launch within the next few weeks.
We're here for good - it's going to be a grind, but we WILL grow this community base, member by member.