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#198793 10/07/2007 11:36 PM
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What are some of the biggest/most active forums you have ever come across? (Doesn't have to be UBB.) Would be interesting to see what is the "biggest" board out there.

This site ranks boards, but there are obviously many that are not in their ring.
http://rankings.big-boards.com

Here are two of the bigger ones I've ever been on:

http://www.thehighroad.org
Threads: 285,130
Posts: 3,735,017
Members: 53,936
Active Members: 10,610


http://forums.ilounge.com/
Threads: 187,195
Posts: 1,134,534
Members: 119,194
Most users ever online was 1,423, 02-11-2006 at 07:53 PM

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The top site from rankings.big-boards.com has a pretty cool feature called "Forum Pulse" that automatically updates whenever there are new posts (look at the top)
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/sports/f.62/

That is just the sports forum. There are different "pulse" areas for each forum. That board gets an insane amount of traffic.

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holy crap.. 2358 pages in one thread!! eek

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Well according to wikipedia this site is the biggest on the Internet with over 600 boards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel

Actually as I recall one of the Ians' posted about the 4ch which is /was spin off or part of them.


Though if they're only at 600 boards still then IGN would appear to beat them in that size. I'm a member of IGN but rarely used their boards.

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# Boards: 4,066 | # Messages: 166,966,807 (55,727 today)

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Sorry to point it out Gimo but it appears that IGN forums are running on Windows IIS

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I visit 4ch/7ch every so often


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Originally Posted by Sirdude
holy crap.. 2358 pages in one thread!! eek


Makes my longest thread of just over 14,000 look quite small LOL


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keyholebbs from Google Earth runs on an old threads version and is a big board.


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Yeah, considering they have 916139 Registered Users, I'd say that's pretty big wink I do think they need to upgrade though.

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Well IGN with 4,066 boards and 167 Million messages has got to be a joy to manage for Network Admins.

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We're not super big, but pretty active:

Forum Stats
10,291 Members
59 Forums
107,223 Topics
1,966,736 Posts

Max Online: 908 @ 07/13/07 08:00 PM


As for the biggest boards I've ever seen... I don't frequent any that I think would be a contender for biggest.


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