The site becoming regularly becoming permanently inaccessible without knowing to clear your browser cookies is probably one of the big factors slowing growth. It's like random mass permabans for everyone except the people that know and care enough to purge their browsers (which is a pain).

Can not even lurk, the site just becomes a blank page with no instructions permanently unless you clear your cookies. It's not a CloudFlare probl either.

Idk when the last time this happened but it happened a lot in the winter.