It’s not just the software that matters, but the strategy behind. A brand new forum software is not likely to be a honeypot for new users per se, but rather more how the site is positioned on the search engines (quite difficult to encounter in Spanish searches for example), what retention strategy it follows, and how new tendencies and channels are integrated as features. It could simply be viewed as a forum with a nicer interface, or it could be seen as a brand and product, with all that it entails in order to monitor and nourish them.