@ohnoo_not_her My journey is going great! I think we made a little less than $800 from ad revenue alone last month (almost double what we were making, though our traffic has picked up a little bit).
In regards to traffic, I would have to ask what exactly are both measuring - is one pageviews and the other unique pageviews? And is there something that the forum is considering as a 'pageview', but GA4 isn't? I'm not sure.
In situations like this, I would generally choose the lower number. Though I may also default to GA4's data over others (not that I trust the data perse, but most have been using GA for so long, it's almost just the default number to go with).
Not sure if that helped or not.
@ohnoo_not_her My journey is going great! I think we made a little less than $800 from ad revenue alone last month (almost double what we were making, though our traffic has picked up a little bit).
In regards to traffic, I would have to ask what exactly are both measuring - is one pageviews and the other unique pageviews? And is there something that the forum is considering as a 'pageview', but GA4 isn't? I'm not sure.
In situations like this, I would generally choose the lower number. Though I may also default to GA4's data over others (not that I trust the data perse, but most have been using GA for so long, it's almost just the default number to go with).
Not sure if that helped or not.
thanks, that helped 
Yes indeed, probably the forum counts: 1: seeing the post link, and 2: clicking on the post. Absolutely, I think it is that too and Journey probably just counts the link or so.
Oh yeah, GA4, should be heading back and figuring it out, but hate it LOL