It doesn't seem like your paysite strategy is working. I see hardly any updates on video pages in the forum for the last couple months. It seems to me you can have your separate tube site as a pay site and still allow others to use the forum pages to share videos of specific interest.
I decided to go ahead and pay and see what happens, expecting much, much better content and up to date, etc... but for example, the entire reason I ever even came to this site for years, posting my decent share of videos was because of the n-word porn thread and there hasn't been an update there in months.
Why switch to a paysite? Did your cost of operating it really get out of hand? Just curious what the reason is?