Most popular forum?

Anyone have an idea of what the most popular forum is? Because i want to study how they manage a large user base, upgrade/backup, etc.

One of the biggest i’ve found is
http://board.rapmusic.com

the moderation is alright, but not the best…

yep, hardforums are popular :smiley: about 500 visitors or somthing on at any one time :slight_smile:

Wow, that’s big… just checked it out… 475 members and 101 guests… :stuck_out_tongue:

DAMN!! 1000+ members at one time…Yet i don’t see too many mods, lots of supermods/admins or what?

I believe http://board.flashkit.com/board/index.php is one of the largest in terms of members - 334,000+. Also, FanHome.com is another big vB.

Originally posted by DJHK
DAMN!! 1000+ members at one time…Yet i don’t see too many mods, lots of supermods/admins or what?

That place isn’t highly moderated - it is so active that it would be a nightmare unless you had a gigantic team.

i really don’t understand how these places get so big

Originally posted by dethfire
www.hardforums.com

Wow, with that many people and how busy they are, their page rank is only 5. Google reports only 6 sites linking to them. Wonder how they got that big?

Originally posted by Danrak
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Wow, with that many people and how busy they are, their page rank is only 5. Google reports only 6 sites linking to them. Wonder how they got that big? [/B]

Probably use the most effective form of advertising known to mankind…

Which also happens to be the #1 form of advertising that people overlook when promoting their website…

It is also the number one form of viral advertising and has been around since before man could write…

Word of Mouth.

There’s a list on vb.com’s forum of the top vb’s in the world. :slight_smile:

Originally posted by W. Luke
Word of Mouth.

Amen. :smiley:

Originally posted by Jeremy W.
There’s a list on vb.com’s forum of the top vb’s in the world. :slight_smile:

that’s here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47430

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/

3,283,132 posts in total
Registered Members: 75,106

over 100+ users currently online.

http://forums.somethingawful.com

"There are currently 1126 forum members and 37 wanna-be members on the boards.

There are 10,784 registered members."

And it costs $10 to register as a user there.

for me www.Sitepointforums.com ! is cool
covers almost all web knowledge

the others:

www.tutorialforums.com
www.vbulletin.com and
www.vbulletin.org

and alot others r popular!

i really don’t understand how these places get so big

  1. mouth to mouth rules!
  2. Great content
  3. Great structures, graphics and topics
  4. acccidentally types-in hehehe… :wink:

this is a very big (belgian) forum: http://games.telenet.be/forum/

There are currently 771 members and 162 guests on the boards. | Most users ever online was 1318 on 21-01-2003 at 18:19.

Originally posted by Heinrich
mouth to mouth

:lol: