The most popular forum site I believe is
www.ughh.com has forums with over 2million posts… not the biggest, I’m sure… but still freakin’ huge
The most popular forum on the internet is…
Check them out: Who is Online - In total there are 10337 users online
They’ve got over 1 million registered users!!!
They actually are the internet’s largest message board. Nothing tops them.
Check out www.big-boards.com to see the internets highest ranking forums.
www.gaiaonline.com is actually a tribute to what phpBB can do considering the number of posts and users, it has to be a substantial effort to keep it running.
Go Gaia is IMO the biggest forum that excists. Also they have already lost thousands of users during crashes, so I heared. So add a bit of 50.000 members to it.
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Surely this is a subjective issue and should be looked at in the context of a particular category.
I think I’ve got one of the leading (if not the leading) forum on environmental issues.
Plus of course many big boards are too big. For instance on some you can’t have a good debate because several people post every minute so keeping up is impossible.
A careful balancing act I think.
I’m surprised it took someone so long to say this. I believe the guy that runs big-boards is on here a lot.
I’ve always preferred quality over quantity.
I wonder if they did some custom work on phpBB’s basic structure or it’s basically out-of-the-box.
www.big-boards.com is a very interesting site. You can see which are the biggest and sort them out by subject matter and software used. I was happy to submit my forums last week as we just got over 500,000 posts
By the way, word of mouth is important, but it’s still weird that there are not more backlinks showing. On the internet word of mouth means at least some links from people’s posts on other forums, their personal websites etc.
Yes, that’s a great site to get to know some new and very big forums. I always see them as an example for how to deal with mine.
haha, will take you years to find the most popular forum in the world
well susposively according to an interview with http://www.big-boards.com, http://www.gaiaonline.com/forums/ is so hacked/modified that it can no longer be considered phpbb but that is what the interview pointed at. How true that is, we will never know:)
In my opinion http://www.sitepoint.com/forums is one of the biggest forums i have came across so far