How do you find players?

I've been finding it difficult to find a means to share my forums and find new players ever since some of the big-name free resource sites have closed down. Is anyone else experiencing this? Or am I just not acquainted with the area of forums yet?

 

I used to just go site to site and advertise. Now that I only run Discord RPs, I rely on word of mouth. I tell my friends, they tell theirs, etc.

 

My friends and myself have invited former writing partners to our site. A few of them had new writing partners they invited too. I still do site to site advertising sometimes but I do feel like it really doesn't work.

 

I've gotten some hits advertising site-to-site but I know it's generally considered a waste of time nowadays. I'm branching out to using some tumblr JCINK advertiser sites (which are a common thing apparently?) to try those!