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Nathan
Mon 10th Jul '00, 7:01pm
I have 24,000 members at http://www.ina-community.com . Is your bigger? ;)
John
Mon 10th Jul '00, 8:30pm
Wow, I've never seen that many members in one place. They do seem to be quite quiet though. Check out this board for the biggest overall board that I know (running vBulletin):

http://forums2.gameplay.com/

John
Jake
Mon 10th Jul '00, 8:49pm
Give me a few months :)
eva2000
Mon 10th Jul '00, 9:45pm
well make way guys and girls... my vbulletin has only been online for just over 2 weeks and it's growing pretty quickly hehe :D
Martin
Mon 10th Jul '00, 9:46pm
you and I are still more active, Jake.

no sweat ;o)

(PS: I had over 220k posts for 45 days until a crash last week)

You have a nice looking set up there :) If not the most active, definitely the most unique.
werehere
Tue 11th Jul '00, 1:32am
Gameplay has to be the biggest I have actually seen. Close to 1,000,000 posts and not even all the forums are imported.:)

But you all have some huge forums though :)
Menno
Tue 11th Jul '00, 5:30am
Man, how do some of these sites get so big?? :)
Chris Schreiber
Tue 11th Jul '00, 8:48am
Originally posted by Menno
Man, how do some of these sites get so big?? :)

I was thinking the same thing... can't image having close to 1million posts, I am still in the several thousand post range (but growing :))

-Chris
Mark Hewitt
Tue 11th Jul '00, 9:17am
My site is growing too, soon I will dominate the entire World MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Nathan
Tue 11th Jul '00, 11:03am
We had 1.5 million posts, but mtSQL choked on it, so I had to prune to 30 days. That's why it looks inactive.

[Edited by Nathan on 07-11-2000 at 11:40 AM]
Jake
Tue 11th Jul '00, 2:11pm
Ours would be around 2 million posts +, but with the UBB I had to prune my board each day back by 3 days. So it wasnt till we switched to vB that I can keep all the posts there.

[Edited by Jake on 07-11-2000 at 02:14 PM]
Stallion
Tue 11th Jul '00, 3:43pm
Our board has around 120k posts, and 9k members. Would be a little more, but we were victims of several "out-of-space" bugs where some threads and member files were trashed. :/

Nathan, drop me a line if you're still interested in some vB hacks (custom styles...on a per forum basis). I figured out a method which should be fairly painless.
FFRonin
Mon 17th Jul '00, 10:07am
Coo! site, eva2000. EVA is one of my favorite animes :) Well my site has been up for about 3 months and I have 81 members. Currently my boards are under construction for redesigning.
eva2000
Mon 17th Jul '00, 10:33am
thanks FFRonin :D

my forum recently changed to it's new look and has only been online for 3 weeks !

FFRonin and others should really try Ed's Locations/Interests hack to their forums... my members love it and it's great :D
FFRonin
Mon 17th Jul '00, 1:52pm
Coo! I might try it.
Skunk
Thu 20th Jul '00, 7:44am
Man, how do some of these sites get so big??

The gameplay forums started off as the Wireplay forums back in October of 1998 - using the UBB. We've been constantly growing ever since. Here's our current stats:

Number of registered Members: 36,463
Total Threads: 113,346
Total Posts: 974,183
Number of Active Boards: 99

Our largest forum (the Team Fortress Classic board) has over 200,000 posts alone!

Beat that... ;)
WildWayz
Thu 20th Jul '00, 8:53am
But TFC is caaaaaaack :)

Lo Skunk ;)

Get back on IRC you droogie =)

--WildWayz
Troy Roberts
Thu 10th Aug '00, 5:18pm
What kind of numbers are you guys doing for pageviews per month?
eva2000
Thu 10th Aug '00, 5:25pm
well for me i get anywhere between 8500 - 13500 pageviews/day and loving every moment.... i am running targetted banner exchange ads for my site's theme and am bringing alot of suitable visitors/potential members (30 - 80 new anime fans from the exchange) :D
steven
Fri 11th Aug '00, 3:13am
Eva-
Can you pass some of your traffic my way? :)
Bettman
Sat 19th Aug '00, 9:51pm
Hi Nathan,

I run a UBB that has 22 000 members. Yes, it does bog down my server but we have purchased a pretty powerful server with lots of CPU power.

However, before replacing it with vBulletin, we still have alot of work to customize the script.

There is the board:

http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

We will try to have an even bigger board before the end of the year.

bettman
eva2000
Sat 19th Aug '00, 11:40pm
Originally posted by steven
Eva-
Can you pass some of your traffic my way? :) hehe... don't think it's the right traffic lol
eva2000
Sat 19th Aug '00, 11:41pm
Originally posted by Bettman
Hi Nathan,

I run a UBB that has 22 000 members. Yes, it does bog down my server but we have purchased a pretty powerful server with lots of CPU power.

However, before replacing it with vBulletin, we still have alot of work to customize the script.

There is the board:

http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

We will try to have an even bigger board before the end of the year.

bettman just curious as to what type of server specs are you planning for the vbulletin ?