My initial observations are:
-The recovery stories section of the Forum has only had 9 posts in the whole of 2014, it's not something I even was aware of until today.
-The 24hr club is generally populated by those under 1yr, so they couldn't post in the recovery stories section.
-In my time posting and reading the 24hr club, there is never that much narrative of stories by many members, the newcomers forum gets a lot more such traffic, in the 24hr club the majority of the time seems to be clocking in with a time and location, with maybe a few sentences, but nothing excessive.
-The 24hr thread serves as a great place for accountability, one of the only places in the Forum that creates a daily place to pledge another 24hrs of Sobriety.
I don't know what the way forward is, but maintaining that same accountability in some form or another for newcomers is essential. All I know is you did a great job Deeker overseeing it.