There is one thing I would like to point out about this though:
TFW has a lot of members online at the same time, this is true. But if you look at their news page and look at the hits for each story, it seems that those who are online are the only ones who are actually reading and going through the story. Example: as of this time, the Barricade story has 7966 views.
Then come to Seibertron. There are fewer users online at the same time yes, but the hits on stories are much higher, suggesting that there are a lot of people who come here to see and read the story, they just don't actually post or comment on it. Example: the Barricade story here has 27,972 views as of this post, over 3 times the number of TFW.
So yes, they have many more users online, but at the same time, we get far more story hits, suggesting that Seibertron.com ends up more attuned to the general public and not just our users.
Not trying to demean you in any way, just an observation and some thought I put into it after seeing your post!