Few suggestions to the dev/team from someone who have been in this forum for over 8 years, IF you want to have any future for the project:

First of all, don't stay quiet and only reply every now and then. You should have few members of the team to be ready to answer at least 10hrs/day to communitys questions and messages in the forum.
Be active.

Second, if there is a reason you can't be active, tell the community about the reasons and possible time you can be active.

Third, let community help you with the project. There are thousands of top tier devs and people with knowledge that can take the project to another level. Do not hesitate to ask help.

Be open about your goals and why you have made the project in the first place.

Last but not least, do not drive the project with $ signs in your eyes. That never gets you anywhere.

These ar the most important things in my opinion.

I also suggest that you make a non-selfmoderated topic and take all the critisism that comes and deal with it.

Otherwise you can dig a hole and dump whole project there and forget it.