Is there a ranking of the world's largest forums?

[salvaje]

Does anyone know a website that ranks the world's largest forums by traffic, registered users, threads, or posts?

 

[Matt C.]

Big Boards

Forums with 20-100 million messages.

www.forumdirectory.com

Pretty sure SomethingAweful is the largest, unless you count 4chan.

 

[ehd]

But that just covers forums in English.

 

[RobinHood]

PbNation used to be one of the largest and busiest on the web back in the day, that's before other social media sites killed it over the last 10-15 years.

Currently Active Users: 189 (2 members and 187 guests)

Wow....what a drop off....

 

[RobinHood]

I misread this is BigBooty Forum, and was then very disappointed

 

[Wildcat Media]

The largest forum I admin is on the 20-100M+ page, but a forum similar to ours, with a few fewer messages at 36M+, is not listed. Could it be due to being owned by Verticalscope?

BTW, does @digitalpoint run the forumdirectory.com site? It looks like one of his projects.

 

[Mr Lucky]

PbNation used to be one of the largest and busiest on the web back in the day, that's before other social media sites killed it over the last 10-15 years.



Wow....what a drop off....

Looks like it might have done a good job of killing itself partly by not working on mobiles.

 

[Suzanne O]

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I misread this is BigBooty Forum, and was then very disappointed

LOL @BIG LLC @Jim Boy you'll get a laugh out of this guy.

 

[James]

Nice to see how many of the largest forums are running xenforo. How far things have come since 2010!

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Nice to see how many of the largest forums are running xenforo.

Its the fastest, needing the least server resources. Invision and VB, more server intensive = $$$$

 

[haqzore]

So far none of these are close to being the biggest.
It is a bit niche (video game item trading), but has been the biggest that I know of for many years. It somehow remains largely unknown in the general forum admin world.

D2JSP has 695 million posts, 1.2 million members.
Custom coded & crazy fast.

 

[dilbert]

This one's a little large.

Gaia Online Forums - Community Discussion

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[Suzanne O]

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Thread 'The Large XenForo Forums List'

Nov 27, 2014

This is a list of large forums running XenForo software.

The lists in the next few posts are no longer being updated but feel free to add your site to the thread.

The following key denotes the original software:

XenForo
vBulletin
IPB
phpBB
MyBB
SMF
Other

• Paul B
• Replies: 288
• Forum: Other XenForo discussions and feedback

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It seems this thread is a duplicate of the one i just grabbed from the other discussions board.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

This one's a little large.

Gaia Online Forums - Community Discussion

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Responsiveness. Zero! That is huge, but super unfriendly to current standards.

 

[Ricsca]

This one's a little large.

Gaia Online Forums - Community Discussion

Welcome to Gaia's forums, where millions of members gather to discuss anime, gaming, art, roleplay, and more. Join our vibrant community today!

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Gaia has 2,492,625,622 articles posted with 32,063,576 registered users.

 

[cpvr]

This one's a little large.

Gaia Online Forums - Community Discussion

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One of the largest forums currently online. I believe they're still running PHPBB as their stock forum software with a lot of customized scripts.