[Areishia]

Coming from Gaia to another avatar site can feel a bit odd at first for no other reason than the difference in the amount of features/things to do. Gaia has enough members to keep, most likely, all of the forums at least somewhat active and a number of games for people who don't like to chat, that and you can play said games for as much as you want even when you no longer get gold (the equivalent of Aurum here).

I found adjusting to Trisphee rather easy once I started to actively frequent the site, but this is largely due to the fact that I already became used to smaller, less active avatar sites when I was part of Crysandrea (I just simply adored (and still do) the items and avatars on that site xD, as well as the overall aesthetics :3) so coming back to Trisphee wasn't as hard to adjust as it was when I first made my account here :3.

So, as others have said, you can try to recruit people that have had enough of Gaia's cash pushes and the over inflated gold economy but keeping them will be challenging unless they really like posting and are informed from the get-go that they won't be notified if someone posts in their thread(s) or quotes them ^^;. And those who lurk will probably not last a lot either because there aren't many ways to earn Aurum outside of posting or at least an addictive game they can keep playing even when they don't earn any Aurum for playing it.

Just my opinion/2 cents ^^;.