Ok, I have some suggestions.
I have visited your site before and I rate it pretty amazing, but why should the same with this forum? At least you make your own creations by not making almost the same on every board. This is more indicated forums you want to rival the bitcointalk forums. I think this is difficult even impossible. Because people prefer to discuss their thoughts to this forum.
And also you're too early to open the global moderator registration, how do you sue people for popularizing the forums while you yourself admitted to not focusing on your own forum considering now just launching? Because at this time the forum is in desperate need of the maker if there are things that need to be improved or upgraded.
This is just a suggestion from my point of view, and of course you should not be discouraged. Nothing can be predicted with certainty and nothing is impossible in this world. Make a big surprise with the forum you created.
Congratulations on your new forum hopefully more advanced!  
I support this because it is an action to support the crypto world