A more active forum would definitely help elive take off. The distro which apparently is unspeakable (as whenever I write it in the forum it changes to "hackuna matata") has a lot of support which helps people new to linux, but even though they are both debian-based, the ubuntu forums don't exactly help me configure elive.
I would really love to see linux become the OS of the future, and I think elive is the only contender in terms of looks, but the support is lacking.