[POLL] How old is your forum?

[sbj]

Hello,

how old is your forum, if you don't mind me asking?

• You can change your vote.
• Votes are not public.
• Since some people own multiple forums, you have max. 5 votes. But please don't abuse it or troll it.
• It is okay if your board is closed to the public because you are working on it or it is private access only.
• Not interested in how many licenses you own. Please participate only if your forum is live and going.
• If you founded it before the year 2005, you may respond here in the thread and clarify it if you like.

Thanks.

PS: Just in case I also added 2024 to the list so at least until the end of next year the poll stays nuanced.

 

[hohleweg]

my is from 2004,
first THWB then VBulletin now since 2010 XF

 

[Mendalla]

We went up on XF 1.3 in 2014. However, we are kind of a spinoff from another board that ran on a Drupal-based forum platform for several years before that. They shut down that year and only offered an FB group as a replacement so a bunch of us who were unhappy with that plan started the current site. They were Wondercafe, we are Wondercafe2.

 

[sbj]

my is from 2004,
first THWB then VBulletin now since 2010 XF

Nice, congrats.

Sorry, I had to cap the poll somewhere, couldn't go before 2005.

 

[CedricV]

30th September ‘22. So far we’ve got almost 15k posts and 250 members. We’ve had some great success to far. Very pleased with our community.

 

[Alvin63]

First one started in July 2021 - 9,300 posts and 736 members

Second one started in September 2022 - 20,000 posts and 132 members

 

[Alvin63]

I see about 40% started in 2005 or earlier! So some very established forums then.

 

[zappaDPJ]

My oldest surviving forum started life in 2001 on vBulletin, now running on SMF.

 

[Ravenfreak]

My forum running Xenforo is almost a year old now. I believe this is actually the longest running forum I've had.

 

[TPerry]

Current one the domain was registered in 2018 and played with it for awhile, but lost interest in the field.. but kept up with the domain and brought it back up last year.

 

[ge66]

Founded site in 1996, forum on it since 1997.

 

[sbj]

I didn't realize that there are so many forums who were founded before 2005, so crazy. If I knew, I'd asked @Brogan to raise the poll choice maximum to 30 or 40 .

 

[TCG2007]

07 and still going strong (enough), especially for being a local community (with a surprising amount of global members).

165k threads
4.5 million posts
13k members (though the active count has dropped significantly )

 

[RDR]

1998 - launched using discusware
moved through the years to UBB, vB, xF
451,248 posts
18,907 threads
4,000 members currently (culled out almost 9,000 accounts over the years)

The journey has been interesting...

 

[Faust]

1. Founded in 2020
2. Founded in 2022
3. Founded in 2022

All my forums are photography related and run on XF I’m planning to open 1 or 2 forums in different field, but with these I will use IPB since they provide much more features for my needs than Xenforo.

 

[Rhody]

The years should go back much further, imo My oldest is from 1997

 

[click here]

Started mine in 1999

 

[StarArmy]

Depending on how you measure it, it's in or around 2002.

 

[sbj]

Push.

 

[woody]

2000ish, lots of early mistakes. Many members have 20 years badges now.