https://www.facebook.com/FeatherTalk-1679779005580155/This is a great idea - advertising a traditional forum on Facebook without actually starting a Facebook group. It never crossed my mind that you could do that, and maybe I should do it for this group. Did you actually pay them to promote this, or did they show it to me for free?
Just last night I finished setting up a page for the local bird club and created an event for our upcoming bird mart, and set up a paid ad for the event that's going to start running on Saturday. The page is at
https://www.facebook.com/astbirdclub/ and the event is at
https://www.facebook.com/events/644304249054371/ We've had a Facebook group for several months but needed to find a better way to promote the bird marts, and this seems to be it. It was NOT fun trying to figure out the best way to advertise, but the experience did leave me with some knowledge of how these things work.