What's the largest messageboard on the Internet?

[H.E. Pennypacker]

I find this interesting.

The largest one I've seen is the phpbb.com forum. It has more than 185, 000 members. That's a lot. I thought I had seen the largest when I saw webhostingtalk.com that has more than 105, 000 members. PHPBB has 80, 000 more users!

TupacBoard/Street Hop has about 23, 000. Rapmusic.com has almost 100, 000 members (97, 000).

 

[haunted]

There was this one that i saw that had 200,000 members. I think it was called offtopic.com or something. It had sections for everything.

 

[Amara]

Gotta question though, how many of those members are "active."

 

[Khalistani Soldier]

I remember reading that an Elvis Fan Board was the largest or one of the largest fourms, as well as a Windows/Computer Tech fourm being high up in the rankings.

 

[~Vindictive~]

alot of those boards that are big, have non-active members. the admins just keep them there to make their board look big.

 

[bigmack]

Gotta question though, how many of those members are "active."

also as i mentioned in another thread,those boards can fake the members count. i see this tutorial on how to do it.basically they create a list of usernames,then they follow a certain technqiue to get them all loaded into the database at the same time.

 

[AmerikazMost]

maverick's board

 

[SicC]

fuck huge boards! we keep this one clean.

pz

 

[DutchMakaveli]

http://www.big-boards.com/

Gaia Online has the most posts (266590530).
Deviant Art has the most members (5068184).

 

[Salar]

tupac board (discontinued) is at 370

 

[XxXxDanXxXx]

boxden is pretty big. But 2pacboard is the cleanest and best.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

this board is cool the way it is, not too crowded, not too quiet and not in the middle...

 

[Saaphir]

this board is cool the way it is, not too crowded, not too quiet and not in the middle...

:thumb: Well said!
I'm not dickriding but this board is the coolest (it's very complete,a lot of sub-forums)I've ever visited,plus it's worlwide...There are people from almost every countries here!

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

alot of those boards that are big, have non-active members. the admins just keep them there to make their board look big.

You can say that about every messageboard, really. There are many inactive users on all messageboards.

this board is cool the way it is, not too crowded, not too quiet and not in the middle...

I prefer larger forums because there are more people to communicate with. If you need help, there are more people to help you. Sometimes, it does get a little weird when you can't really say anything, but that comes with the benefits. Its like standing in a crowded room sometimes. Your post is ignored...lol

 

[Rukas]

http://www.big-boards.com/board/486/

Number of posts: 1768507
Number of members: 22358

Thats us, no idea how the hack and loosing all our old threads effected us though.

 

[AmerikazMost]

^ so SicC accounts for 1% of all the posts