[POLL] How old is your forum?

How old is your forum?

  • founded in 2024+

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • founded in 2023

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • founded in 2022

    Votes: 8 9.6%
  • founded in 2021

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • founded in 2020

    Votes: 4 4.8%
  • founded in 2019

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • founded in 2018

    Votes: 5 6.0%
  • founded in 2017

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • founded in 2016

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • founded in 2015

    Votes: 2 2.4%
  • founded in 2014

    Votes: 4 4.8%
  • founded in 2013

    Votes: 2 2.4%
  • founded in 2012

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • founded in 2011

    Votes: 4 4.8%
  • founded in 2010

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • founded in 2009

    Votes: 2 2.4%
  • founded in 2008

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • founded in 2007

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • founded in 2006

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • founded in 2005 and before

    Votes: 39 47.0%

  • Total voters
    83

sbj

Well-known member
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.
 
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.
 
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First one started in July 2021 - 9,300 posts and 736 members

Second one started in September 2022 - 20,000 posts and 132 members
 
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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.
 
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 :D.
 
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 :( )
 
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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...
 
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.
 
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