Huge vBulletins - 1 million posts and greater

[Gary King]

I think that this thread should just have a link to this page: http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=vBulletin,all and people can submit their forums to there to see how they rank against other forums :D

[OsMoSiS.it]

http://www.elaborare.info/forum/vbulletin/ 6+ Million posts

[klaw07]

forums.nyyfans.com

[Vtec44]

Wow, http://www.offtopic.com now has 29 million posts.

[ToeTapping]

yeah off topic.com just topped 30 million. almost 31mil.

[AU-David]

It would be cool to have a forum with 1000,000+ posts.

[ghedamsi]

very good

[Raz Meister]

heh, just noticed we hit 3 million a while back :D

[Brains]

You guys keeping these all online? I'm at just shy of 2.5 million and having heaps of search headaches... :( I've heard Off-Topic prunes very often, which seems to fit since the whole site there really wouldn't use old posts -- but mine all the old posts are very often searched for and read...

[Raz Meister]

No problems here at over 3m. I'm guessing your MySQL isn't optimized for your site. You might want to ask Eva to help you out on that.

Also for your search. You might want to consider installing the MySQL hack, or as we have done, offload the work to Google :D

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/search.php

[Loony BoB]

Eyes on Final Fantasy (http://forums.eyesonff.com/index.php) has pruned a lot of posts over the last three years (it's the databases third birthday today), but I've just made a post with postid 1005033. I've been waiting ages to post EoFF into here. :D

[Abe Babe]

http://forums.adventchildren.net hit the 1,000,000 mark about two weeks ago. We have only been online since December 2003 and I believe we are one of the largest FF based communities on the web.

Threads: 29,439, Posts: 1,077,694, Members: 11,085
[at time of posting this]

Although our forums have temporarily closed because we need to move to a dedicated server. So you might need to wait a couple of days if you need to see proof. :)

Abe Babe...

[xYarub]

GameBattles
Ladders, Leagues, & Tournaments for Online Gaming

http://forums.gamebattles.com
Threads: 234,870, Posts: 3,262,932

[torcida]

+2 milion posts
www.forum.hr (http://www.forum.hr) - 2,444,554

[SimonHodgkiss]

The biggest forum I have seen is 32 million posts !

[Khaleel]

Last time I checked: ~ 4,307,027 posts :p
http://forums.off-topic.net/index.php?s=
Check now its more than 30

Also check this
http://www.cosforums.com/ Posts: 1,062,080

[Brains]

My site is now around 2.6M or so posts, all relevant and online.. For "normal" board stuff (ie. reading and posting) performance is very good. If I use the built-in VB search or even the VB.org FULLTEXT search, performance goes right in the crapper. MySQL table locks will damned near take the box down, and the site? Well, the appropriate response would be "what site? I don't see any website!" ... :(

The problem starts with MySQL, but ends with vBulletin. Nothing can be done to properly fix this issue as long as vBulletin is coded against a database engine that only supports table-level locking. I've resorted to creating secondary copies of the post and thread tables, copied and reindexed once every morning when there's only 150-200 active users online. It sucks, because that breaks things like View New Posts and looking at a users' recent posts.

[Zachery]

The one I provided or the actual hack?

MySQL's MySIAM is table locking, while InnoDB is row level locking, but is typically slower.

[KrON]

My site is now around 2.6M or so posts, all relevant and online.. For "normal" board stuff (ie. reading and posting) performance is very good. If I use the built-in VB search or even the VB.org FULLTEXT search, performance goes right in the crapper. MySQL table locks will damned near take the box down, and the site? Well, the appropriate response would be "what site? I don't see any website!" ... :(

The problem starts with MySQL, but ends with vBulletin. Nothing can be done to properly fix this issue as long as vBulletin is coded against a database engine that only supports table-level locking. I've resorted to creating secondary copies of the post and thread tables, copied and reindexed once every morning when there's only 150-200 active users online. It sucks, because that breaks things like View New Posts and looking at a users' recent posts.

MySQL's Innodb table type does support row-level locking, just not fulltext searching.

Most of us big sites have been using Innodb tables for years now..

[Zachery]

I believe I remember erwin saying he is back on MySIAM at the moment as InnoDB was too slow.

[Brains]

I've heard some of the same comments, but I'm willing to give InnoDB a try if it'll help.

Who here has a 2+M post site running InnoDB, and what style of search are you using? I know many won't have good statistics of search usage, which really makes all the difference in performance on my site. I've seen up to 175 concurrent unique hosts performing searches, which really tears up ISAM. It'll get bad enough to trigger my watchdog cron job to punt MySQL and restart it.

[chudakru]

:eek: uau...

[kerplunk]

http://www.teenspot.com/boards/ - Posts: 3,540,130

[Ted S]

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums.php - 1,004,587 (yay).

[Erwin]

I've heard some of the same comments, but I'm willing to give InnoDB a try if it'll help.

Who here has a 2+M post site running InnoDB, and what style of search are you using? I know many won't have good statistics of search usage, which really makes all the difference in performance on my site. I've seen up to 175 concurrent unique hosts performing searches, which really tears up ISAM. It'll get bad enough to trigger my watchdog cron job to punt MySQL and restart it.
I've just, literally an hour ago, converted a few of my tables back to InnoDB, including my 14 million row post table. I'm not using full-text search anyway so I've just dropped the fulltext indices and did it. I do allow members to search each other's posts, and that was causing major table locking and runaway mysql processes... I'll let you know how it goes... I tried it yesterday, but had to redo it because I wanted to tweak the InnoDB log file sizes... it's a pain to tweak the InnoDB config... :)

[kerplunk]

Have we talked about server hardware before in this thread? I didn't see any discussion about it. What server hardware are you all running? What do you think about AMD Opteron vs. Intel Xeon for processing?

We own three servers with the following stats:

1U ServerMicro Dual Xeon 2.8ghz 800FSB, 2GB RAM, 2x36gb 15krpm SCSI in RAID1.

We're thinking about buying a kick a database server, but don't quite know what we should get. We've heard some good things about Opterons, but Xeons have always been stable and generally great.

Suggestions? Opinions?

[chrispadfield]

It might best best to post these sort of things in the Server Configuration http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14 forum. You are likely to get more responses.

[kerplunk]

Right.

Because this thread is more involved with discussing MySQL (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=18), PHP (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=12), and how they are configured (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14), right? ;)

I'm not even too curious about my question, so if no one choses to respond here it does not bother me.

I operate a very large "1 million posts and greater" community, FYI.

[ScottW]

http://www.techimo.com/forum
Posts: 1,323,892

[zfrank]

http://forum.gsmhosting.com

Posts: 1,025,958

[kerplunk]

I apologize. I meant to post my previous post in this thread:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111239

Sorry Chris.

[djwins]

Hi, I run a vB board that has 850,000+ posts and 28,259 registered users.
Peak users online is low 400s with mid 350s as fairly common.

My server is a 3.06ghz dual Xeon with 1GB ram and an IDE hard drive.

I get a lot of these general error messages:

Database error in vBulletin :

Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error:

mysql error number: 0
About once or twice a day, mySQL will get really slow for about 5 minutes or so.

My guess is that my hard drive is having trouble keeping up.
I can get a new server with 2x36GB SCSI drives (Seagate 10,000RPM) and a RAID card, but it will cost me about 50% more per month.

Anyway, my question is: Do you think the new drives will help performance significantly and, if so, do you recommend a RAID 0 configuration?

Thanks!

[Scootertaj]

Just wondering, but shouldn't this be in the server configuration, or something else besides naming big sites...?

[piertiong]

http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/

Posts: 2,453,315

[Jeff Dillon]

We recently passed the 1 million mark. We usually have several hundred folks logged on at any given time -- and we're still slogging away with version 2.3.0. Sigh.
http://forums.signonsandiego.com/

[edivad82]

http://forum.hwupgrade.it/index.php

Post: 7,666,183


and


http://forum.html.it/forum/

Post: 3,188,768 (some deleted in the past)

[kau]

Jeepforum.com has over 1 mil now. 1,063,210 today.

[pkuczaj]

http://baby.ourlittleuniverse.com/

The second part is

http://home.ourlittleuniverse.com/ but the second part hasn't past the 1 Million mark yet... It's close though... I would say another 1-2 months.

[pkuczaj]

I've had this problem. You'll find that upgrading your RAM to 2 Gig will completely resolve the problem. Check you cache, and you'll find that the server is hitting the drive cache so hard that it can't keep up with the traffic. But if you boost you RAM it'll reduce to remove the cache hits.

I'm running a AMD3500+ with 2 Gig of RAM with an average of 600 users online at peak.


Hi, I run a vB board that has 850,000+ posts and 28,259 registered users.
Peak users online is low 400s with mid 350s as fairly common.

My server is a 3.06ghz dual Xeon with 1GB ram and an IDE hard drive.

I get a lot of these general error messages:

Database error in vBulletin :

Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error:

mysql error number: 0
About once or twice a day, mySQL will get really slow for about 5 minutes or so.

My guess is that my hard drive is having trouble keeping up.
I can get a new server with 2x36GB SCSI drives (Seagate 10,000RPM) and a RAID card, but it will cost me about 50% more per month.

Anyway, my question is: Do you think the new drives will help performance significantly and, if so, do you recommend a RAID 0 configuration?

Thanks!

[IPB User]

I know a place that has 503,000+ posts. They should hit a million by like next year or something.:D

http://forums.clantemplates.com

[_| () R | Z]

how about empting the first post and post this link in it: http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=vBulletin,all&p=all ;)

[Nick.]

http://forums.livingwithstyle.com (Adult Content Advisory)

Threads: 142,302, Posts: 1,898,200, Members: 28,322 :D

[BIGMONAY2K]

not work safe xxx content
http://www.doctoramor.com/foro/index.php?

[vBadvanced]

Wooohooo! I finally get to post in this thread. :p

http://edmplanet.com

[Janitor]

Hey Chris-


Can you update our site on the list?

We hit the 5 million mark - http://board.rapmusic.com/


Thanks
Jeff

[darkface]

thanks

[Mike Warner]

www.migweb.co.uk/forums/ currently has 2,074,563. :)

Thanks.

[Meirion]

Gurn.net number 20 odd in the list has just had a revamp - check it out

http://www.gurn.net

[Bulent Tekcan]

Updated:

Our boards is now 1.000.000+ posts...

http://www.turkeyforum.com/satforum/

Threads: 93,742, Posts: 1,030,079, Members: 101,708

And also 5-6 category not count post :)

[edivad82]

and also 5-6 category not count post :)
not count the user post, but the total counter is updated

[_| () R | Z]

how about empting the first post and post this link in it: http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=vBulletin,all&p=all ;)

(...)

[sabret00the]

is it just me or does this thread keep moving from suggestions -> chit chat -> suggestions -> chit chat?

[weirdpixels]

as far as I know it's been in this forum for as long as I have been coming it, which is quite a while

[sabret00the]

ahhhhh, was confusing it with this thread :)

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111239

[weirdpixels]

oh well that's an easy mistake to make ;)

[Chris M]

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/ (http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/) (1,909,935)

The forum now has 4,065,090 posts ;)

Just to keep the thread updated :p

Satan

[Hayven]

I'll be a part of this also!

[chuanjer]

hi all,

Can I add my site in? a 6-7 Million Forums site.
http://www.hardwarezone.com
Asia's leading Tech Review site.

Forums URL at
http://forums.hardwarezone.com

[ick]

Forum TR
http://www.forumtr.com
Threads: 100,000+ Posts: 1,000,000+ Members: 100,000+
TR = Turkey

[jackchen2008]

http://forum.scholieren.com (http://forum.scholieren.com/)

well.. i also added up the posts of the hidden fora but withjout them it is also above the 1000000

[Floris]

(...)
We like to keep the statistics on our own forum, and not a third party unofficial site. (one of the random reasons)

[Jimmy Kane]

http://board.muse.mu

Threads: 19,726, Posts: 1,026,726, Members: 21,604

:)

[leper messiah]

3m+ posts
foros.3dgames.com.ar
games forum from Argentina
3,487,476 posts
220,515 users

[auto]

http://www.AutomotiveForums.com surpassed 3 million posts yesterday. :D

[FlyBoy73]

as an update on this thread, i have now 176 vBulletin forums over the million post mark (http://www.big-boards.com/index.php?type=vBulletin&page=all) in database @big-boards.com
Largest is still Literotica, although the General Mayhem forums are coming in quickly. The post count taken into account is the one shown on the boards home page, therefore some boards like SA or off-topic (not even listed) may not be in the right place in terms of actual "activity".

Cheers,
Quentin

A year and a half (aprox.) after this above post was made there are now more than 475 vBulletin forums listed on Big-Boards that exceed 1 million posts. And these are only the ones listed on Big-Boards..

Way to go admins/sysops & vB!

I'm working on getting my second one into the million post class.

[UK Jimbo]

http://www.visordown.com/forums/ now at 2,515,824 posts

[Dave#]

A year and a half (aprox.) after this above post was made there are now more than 475 vBulletin forums listed on Big-Boards that exceed 1 million posts. And these are only the ones listed on Big-Boards..

Way to go admins/sysops & vB!

I'm working on getting my second one into the million post class. This thread hasn't been updated in ages and big-boards does a great job of monitors huge VBs - this thread should die

[Floris]

This thread hasn't been updated in ages and big-boards does a great job of monitors huge VBs - this thread should die
We like to keep the statistics on our own forum, and not a third party unofficial site. (one of the random reasons)

[Tippmaster]

http://pbnation.com

over 13 million posts. It's huge.

[FlyBoy73]

I'm a member there and it is a great forum, Tippmaster...

As for this thread, it definitely should not die...

[AWS]

http://visualbasicforum.com
Hit a million today.

[Dean C]

http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/

Came across this by accident just :)

[dan001]

Well dont I jsut have to add http://www.theforumhaven.com/

i should not have read this thread, O M G is all I can say, how do you bloody do it? how do you get members that vast?! All I can do is congratulate the owners/moderators and anyone else who works to create communities like I am seeing here.

[krohnathlonman]

I have one about to crack over 14million posts ;)

[Floris]

First post updated - sites that didn't display statistics or returned a 404 have been removed, the rest has been updated with their stats and newly reported sites are added. Right now they're displaying in ranged groups, the next update will not have the total number of posts.

[inam]

damn over 1 million posts thats excellent!

[turkforum]

I see you updated the list
Can you please add our site for the next update

http://www.turkforum.net

Konular (Threads): 84,199, Mesajlar (Posts) : 1,179,585, Üyeler (members): 59,666

We are one of the most reputable forums in Turkiye
Google PR 5
Unique hits 25 000

TurkForum.NET is proud to be displayed on the printed and visual media:)

http://www.hurriyetim.com.tr/yazarlar/yazar/0,,authorid~69@sid~9@nvid~573638,00.asp

http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2005/05/07/yazar/zbirand.html

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/editorial.php?ed=mehmet_ali_birand

Yours faithfully
TurkForum

[allstar89]

A good friend:

www.pearldrummersforum.com

posts:1,017,701

[cirisme]

http://www.theologyweb.com/

Currently: Members: 7,641 | Posts: 1,002,182 | Threads: 42,601

[Floris]

I see you updated the list
Can you please add our site for the next update

http://www.turkforum.net

Konular (Threads): 84,199, Mesajlar (Posts) : 1,179,585, Üyeler (members): 59,666

We are one of the most reputable forums in Turkiye
Google PR 5
Unique hits 25 000

TurkForum.NET is proud to be displayed on the printed and visual media:)

http://www.hurriyetim.com.tr/yazarlar/yazar/0,,authorid~69@sid~9@nvid~573638,00.asp

http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2005/05/07/yazar/zbirand.html

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/editorial.php?ed=mehmet_ali_birand

Yours faithfully
TurkForum

Added. Thank you for reporting.


A good friend:

www.pearldrummersforum.com (http://www.pearldrummersforum.com)

posts:1,017,701

Thank you, also added to the list.


http://www.theologyweb.com/

Currently: Members: 7,641 | Posts: 1,002,182 | Threads: 42,601
Sorry, not (yet) added to the list, I couldn't find these statistics on the web site.

[cirisme]

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/index.php?

At the top:


TWebbers enrolled to date: 7,655
Posts: 1,005,084 | Threads: 42,706

[Dave#]

We passed 3M early yesterday, which was nice

[Floris]

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/index.php?

At the top:
Thank you! Added to the list.

[cirisme]

Thanx. :)

[rookiecrd1]

http://www.filesharingtalk.com (1,082,290)

[Floris]

http://www.filesharingtalk.com (1,082,290)
Added to the list.

[dbode]

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/ (2.161.835)

[civicowners.com]

Once my site get's big it will be one of the numbers #1 as well

[EarlyBird]

Hi,

I don't see skyscrapercity http://www.skyscrapercity.com/ in your list. It currently has 2,491,569 despite a recent hacker deleting a lot of posts.

[Floris]

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/ (2.161.835)
Added to the list.

[Floris]

Hi,

I don't see skyscrapercity http://www.skyscrapercity.com/ in your list. It currently has 2,491,569 despite a recent hacker deleting a lot of posts.
Also added to the list.

[WebmasterAJ]

Hey guys -

I searched this thread for "backup" and it didn't come up with anything. But, I was curious if you guys could point me in the right direction. I have my vB database backed up every morning at 5am EST. The site flies the entire day and night... but as soon as that time hits, the site turns dead. The backup brings the site to a crawl.

This is a 1GB database and I just need to know how I can back this up without making my site dead! Please let me know...

Sincerely,
Andrew Tatum

[Steve Machol]

Unfortunately there is no way to do this without affecting the db and server. In order to make a backup, each table has to be locked during that part of the backup.

[Dave#]

Unfortunately there is no way to do this without affecting the db and server. In order to make a backup, each table has to be locked during that part of the backup. yes there is - replication for one

[Steve Machol]

I stand corrected.

[WebmasterAJ]

Can you explain this?

Do you mean like setting up a script to replicate the database, then lock and backup the replicated database? LOL... dang, that's confusing. But let me know...

[AXH]

http://my.opera.com/forums/index.php

[nuggy]

I'd rather change it to something like 250,000 members or more instead of 1 million posts and greater, since a lot of those posts will be spam spam spam, all the way. The most popular boards should be numbered from the most members, since those are the ones who can attract people to join, and usually stay to post [and read-up ]

Just my 2 cents hehe :):)

wise words. :)

[kirupa]

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/index.php? :)

[Floris]

Nice forum, and added to the list.

[DannyITR]

www.montrealracing.com/forums (http://www.montrealracing.com/forums)

[Xeno Blackheart]

http://www.rpgpalace.net/forums/index.php

[-]FusiøN[-]

http://www.rpgpalace.net/forums/index.php

Is it me or is there something fishy about the total number of posts and the number of posts I count individually? :confused:

[Zachery]

They've gone though a few prunes fusion.

[-]FusiøN[-]

Ok, sorry. My bad, didnt mean anything with it. ;)

[Shaun Lyon]

My forum Outpost Gallifrey (the largest fan site for the TV series "Doctor Who") has:
13,392 Members
1,480,532 Total Messages

It's at www.gallifreyone.com/forum (http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum) and it's member only, but you're welcome to check... :)

[Creepshow]

Holy ****, that OffTopic place is HUGE! :eek:
I'd never been there before a few minutes ago...

[mp3masta]

13,392 Members
1,480,532 Total Messages


woa !!!! :eek: i was sure that this is impossible

[Prince]

I would like to add my board www.IronMagazineForums.com (http://www.IronMagazineForums.com) to the 1 Million post list! :)

[moh-has]

www.montada.com (http://www.montada.com)
293,268 member

www.shamela.net (http://www.shamela.net)
428,688 member

www.mobile4arab.com (http://www.mobile4arab.com)
396,225 member

those forums are the biggest arabics forum
and their posts are more than 3 millions

[ssivagna]

http://www.rpgpalace.net/forums/index.php (http://www.rpgpalace.net/forums/index.php)
has around 400 000 posts which actually isnt posts but some battle log.

[soniceffect]

can someone put mine in the 0-100`s :)

LOL

[_Edgar_]

http://www.computergames.ro/forum/ - 1,501,213 posts.

[Skyline_GTR]

http://www.gamerzplanet.net
Posts: 1,040,288

[WrestleMania]

dvd4arab.com .. 1.542.152 Posts

[Adam001]

Mine only has 1,396 posts and 86 members :(

I WANT MORE !

Register: http://forum.tinyturtle.co.uk

[Quillz]

Mine only has 1,396 posts and 86 members :(

I WANT MORE !

Register: http://forum.tinyturtle.co.uk
You're never going to get members spamming like that.

[Alteran Ancient]

Before Soon, the Sony Pictures forum will Get onto the List. They recently took over MGM, so the forum is relatively new.

I just realised, they're using vB! They need a reminder to goto 3.5

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/index.php

[Dave#]

Before Soon, the Sony Pictures forum will Get onto the List. They recently took over MGM, so the forum is relatively new.

I just realised, they're using vB! They need a reminder to goto 3.5

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/index.php


Posts: 111,065

[BIGMONAY2K]

i should not have read this thread, O M G is all I can say, how do you bloody do it? how do you get members that vast?! All I can do is congratulate the owners/moderators and anyone else who works to create communities like I am seeing here.
forum like that cost alot of money to run a foum like that..I am glad my forum is that big, $20 a month is good enough for me:D

[genterist.net]

man! You guys have great forums !!

[jackey]

BigSoccer now has 6,337,264 posts!!!
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/index.php?

[dreamer81]

danish debat site
http://debat.jubii.dk/ has 4,1 million posts

they are running vb 3.0.2 or something liek that

[stormblast-]

Musiker-Board:1.000.050 posts at the moment and counting :cool:
http://www.musiker-board.de/vb/

[Deriel]

Valinor - J.R.R. Tolkien fans forum (in Portuguese)
http://forum.valinor.com.br
1,122,933 posts and 21,253 users

:D

[LeeD]

SmashBoards.Com - Smaash World Forum
http://www.smashboards.com
1,011,208 posts and 25,462 members

[roosevelt]

Man Offtopic is the only site forum I saw in my life with all those people online at the same time.

[°°Ben³]

Man Offtopic is the only site forum I saw in my life with all those people online at the same time. All? Never :D

Currently:

Currently Active Users (http://forums.offtopic.com/online.php): 1703 (1592 members and 111 guests)Edited:
German board that discuss digitally television
--> http://forum.digitalfernsehen.de/forum/

threads: 89.260, postings: 1.032.677, members: 40.158


German board, portal that discuss topics on hardware & co.
--> http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/

threads: 164.233, postings: 2.587.473, members: 29.213

[MikeG]

International mountain biking forums ....

Threads: 141,011, Posts: 1,314,405, Members: 38,176

Most users ever online was 4568, 06-28-2005 at 08:51 AM.

Currently Active Users: 3066 (1887 members and 1179 guests)

We've been growing consistantly ever since we moved from webX about 2 years ago. Soooo many good features. We want to upgrade to 3.5.1 ASAP, but we've made a lot of mods to the 3.0.0 RC2 code we started off with.

I had to change the search code recently ... we have 275, 000 posts that have the keyword "bike" ... obviously this caused a memory limit exception. I also am researching, and maybe coding, an archive feature. I've been given the job of finding a way to archive posts older than 1 year to HTML ... the database is getting so huge. Additionally, the archive needs to be searchable .... uhg :eek:

- Mike Gorham
Engineering Manager,
mtbr.com

[Broncos]

http://www.softballfans.com/forums/

Just over 1,000,000 now :p

[chris3471]

I haven't got it yet, I want to get vbulliten on my site now but someone told me I should wait until I get up to 40 uniques a day. Do you think I should?
I probably should add my site is only 11 days old.

[Dave#]

we now have a million posts in one forum :)

http://forums.cpfc.org/index.php?s=

and nearly 3.5m in total

[*Laura]

3,932,615....

Cruise Critic (http://boards.cruisecritic.com)

[Dukefrukem]

www.Notebookforums.com (http://www.Notebookforums.com)

Posts: 1,353,468

[trackpads]

Trackpads.com

Just eeked by!

Posts: 1,001,512

[ManagerJosh]

Officially..vBulletin.com has over 1,000,000 posts now :)

[Pro Stock John]

www.ls1tech.com (http://www.ls1tech.com)
3,108,689 posts
53,273 members
329,218 threads

[Davos]

Yay!

--

James Carlson (a.k.a. Davos Vortigren) (http://www.jamescarlson.org/)

[ic@dvdf]

Can I nominate www.thedvdforums.com? (http://www.thedvdforums.com?) 3,010,432 posts :)

[Alteran Ancient]

It's not my site, but it's reached 1 Million.

http://forum.gateworld.net/index.php

[mlucek]

www.CandlePowerForums.com (http://www.CandlePowerForums.com)

after some false starts, recently switched from UBB Threads to VB.

Threads: 103,630, Posts: 1,229,080, Members: 12,265

(not my site)

[PSS]

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/

Threads: 126,373, Posts: 1,080,387, Members: 47,504

[NexDog]

Does anyone moderate this thread? Because ReefCentral (where I'm a member is now in the 6 million post bracket (Posts: 6,424,789):

http://reefcentral.com/forums/

[Dave#]

Does anyone moderate this thread? Because ReefCentral (where I'm a member is now in the 6 million post bracket (Posts: 6,424,789):

http://reefcentral.com/forums/ This thread is pointless anjd is out of date almost straight away.

Try big-boards (http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=vBulletin,all) instead

[wnxwakko]

http://www.warriornation.net

Posts: 1,449,118

[Mattlab]

Atari Forums

http://www.ataricommunity.com

Posts: 3,197,756

[lordofgun]

www.billszone.com/fanzone/ (http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/)

Threads: 86,590, Posts: 1,322,923, Members: 6,284

[mincecfc]

My forum has 332,186 posts in 33,818 threads, made by 4,233 users.

We started in late November.

Do I win £5? :)

[Jon78]

http://forum.scholieren.com/

5.684.509 posts (would have been 20.365.959 without pruning).

[DakDarie]

WowAmazing

[RedWingFan]

AI'll throw in my entry for SteveHoffman.tv: http://www.stevehoffman.tv .

Threads: 69,898, Posts: 1,555,754, Members: 7,005

Constantly tweaking to keep the place running smoothly. Quite a challenge!

I doubt if anyone recognizes Steve's name, unless they are into collecting CDs or music, or they are an audiophile. Steve was the mastering engineer behind the DCC label, which remastered and re-released popular albums on gold CDs. DCC's gone, but he does work for a handful of other boutique labels now. He started mastering while at MCA--if you own something like the Buddy Holly or Bill Haley & The Comet's From The Original Master Tapes, that's his work too.

No spam on our forum, BTW: we've got an excellent team of moderators that usually jump on it within minutes, and have the spam removed and the spammer banned before most members can see it.

[The_Sisko]

We did it ;)
www.scifi-forum.de (http://www.scifi-forum.de)
Themen: 26.736, Beiträge: 1.000.149, Benutzer: 7.671

[BIGMONAY2K]

http://forums.sohh.com/
Threads: 412,289
Posts: 6,154,453
Members: 121760
Newest Member:

[Floris]

This thread is pointless anjd is out of date almost straight away.

Try big-boards (http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=vBulletin,all) instead
The thread is not outdated, because the new sites are added at the end. Over time we will update the first post again.

If you find a thread useless, don't post to it. We do not find it useless and are very glad that people take the time to report sites with millions of posts to us.

[Tantawi]

http://forums.amrdiabworld.com/

1,002,054 Posts.

[Dave#]

The thread is not outdated, because the new sites are added at the end. Over time we will update the first post again.


Is this a joke?


(last updated @ 07 August 2005 by Floris)


If you find a thread useless, don't post to it.

Nice attitude

[Creepshow]

Is this a joke?




Nice attitude


You are the biggest troll ever.

[Dave#]

You are the biggest troll ever. LOL - flames from the coic book guy.

Just love it.

[wii]

This is the biggest vBulletin board I´ve seen:

http://debat.jubii.dk/

[dethfire]

http://www.sportscardforum.com

1,200,000+

[WebmasterAJ]

I guess I haven't been keeping up. This is an awesome idea!

http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/

2,113,624 posts!

Thank you for your time!

[dbembibre]

Very nice Idea.
BMW enthusiast Spanish board
http://www.bmwfaq.com
1.039.992 Posts

[dutchbb]

http://forum.dutchbodybuilding.com/

Dutch speaking community with members from Belgium and the Netherlands, talking about fitness, bodybuilding, powerlifting, diet (dieet), weightloss (afvallen) and a lot more. :)

Posts: 1,026,992
and almost 20,000 members.

BigBoards ranking: http://www.big-boards.com/highlight/1314/

[gertiebeth]

We made it!

1 million posts
32,690 members
open since October 2004

http://lost-forum.com

'Cuz it's the best show on TV. ;)

[Kyrnel]

MX6.com - http://www.mx6.com
1,239,046 posts :)

[TheChosenOne]

Hey ..i am sure..this is not the right thread to post this query of mine...but i just wanted to know if it is possible to build a forums based web site using vBulletin...all by urself..assuming that ur a novice and amateur web designer..or do we need special expertise ..or team to build a website outta vBulletin...???

TheChosenOne

[220mph]

http://www.trackforum.com/forums

1,091,178

[Mtmm]

www.pakkotoisto.com/vbulletin (http://www.pakkotoisto.com/vbulletin)

Posts: 1,000,331

[Zachery]

Please only post in english.

[Dave#]

Please only post in english.
:eek: :eek: :eek:

[DJ PİSAGOR]

biggest turkish forum http://forum.antu.com
in the same time world biggest is the football team
Total Posts: 5.509.204( Every second is increasing )

[Zachery]

I will only ask once more, any users who refuse to post only in english will be banned.

[NEXCS-Greg]

http://joblo.com/forums - 2,112,217
http://comingsoon.net/forums - 1,707,937
http://forums.freshalloy.com - 1,285,935

[NEXCS-Greg]

http://antsmarching.org - 4,118,686

[Sim175]

Very interesting list! :)

[Sergio68]

BODYWEB.it (http://www.bodyweb.it/forums) 1,464,059 posts and growing

N° 5 Body Building & Fitness bulletin on the planet ;) http://www.big-boards.com/kw/bodybuilding/

[mentalrz]

just hit 1mill
(http://forum.ragezone.com/)

[walter]

1 045 351 posts:
http://www.tverlebnis.com/forum/
A Forum about TV, films, shows and RPGs

[Floris]

Thread update:

Posts soft deleted from users who are showing up unlicensed, and users who refuse to speak english.

[sully02]

http://sports-boards.net

[Becca]

www.wetcanvas.com/forums (http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums)

[biggyme14]

http://forums.offtopic.com/index.php?s=

Threads: 2,662,650, Posts: 60,210,741, Members: 149,230


First on the list eh?

[Gizzy]

we just crossed the 2 million posts mark in only 1 single forum.

www.gupistan.com (http://www.gupistan.com)

:)

[letsjoy]

http://forum.chatdd.com 100,000+

very happy

[WurkAnimal]

Very interesting list indead. Kepe comming!

[InfidelMatt]

It seems our board hadn't been added to the list, so no better time then now!

www.iidb.org (http://www.iidb.org)

3,566,786 posts in 158,370 threads.

Matt

[mel_akey]

wow this thread gives me real motivation! My husband and I are developing a forum... but are still on paper... but to see all this success!
Congradulations everyone!

[Floris]

wow this thread gives me real motivation! My husband and I are developing a forum... but are still on paper... but to see all this success!
Congradulations everyone!
Thanks for your interest in the vBulletin forum software and feel free to post your pre-sales questions in our pre-sales forum. We're looking forward having your as our customer.

[Mineralwater]

http://forums.offtopic.com/index.php?s=

Threads: 2,662,650, Posts: 60,210,741, Members: 149,230


First on the list eh?
Sorry, I cannot see the 60 millions posts? :confused:

[biggyme14]

I do........:p

[Viper81]

How is offtopic.com not on that list?

[biggyme14]

thats what I said,


(last updated @ 07 August 2005 by Floris)
I guess thats why

[Vtec44]

darn it, we're 16% there LOL

[Floris]

The list will be updated when we have enough new posts to fill in. And .. it's almost the 7th, so won't be long :)

[BethanyCampbell]

wow! 1million+ posts!

Beth

[Yur1y]

1 million posts...)

[Carlos X]

Congrats. :D

[Rob B]

I have always wondered why massive forums like Off Topic have the 'Whos Online' feature on the homepage enabled. It's got so many names there it's almost useless. :confused:

[Rob B]

BigFooty.com needs adding to that list. That has 5.5 Million.

[mlucek]

Since nobody has added this one, here it is:

http://www.flyertalk.com/

Threads: 580,576, Posts: 6,202,929, Members: 111,055

as of 8/14/06

[dvn]

my own:

Splitcoaststampers
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums

on 8/15/06:
Threads: 140,934, Posts: 2,972,242, Members: 91,817, Active Members: 67,009

[WurkAnimal]

Nice list all! :)

[Rob B]

What about Digital Spy (http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/)

They have 10.5 million posts.

3.5 million of them on Big Brother :o

[Thraxwell House]

www.rapflava.com (http://www.rapflava.com)

[Jerry]

Lionhead, the company of The Master himself (even if it was sold to Micro$oft) ..... :bowdown: :werenotworthy: :werenotworthy: etc etc

http://allboards.lionhead.com/

[mlucek]

Surprised nobody had posted this one :

http://www.tampaforums.com/forums/

as of 8/23/06:

Threads: 84,473, Posts: 1,492,243, Members: 31,491

[Ramiel]

Can you put BodyBuilding.com in the 10Million+ section...
Posts: 10,004,013

Thanks,
Ramiel

[Steve420]

http://forums.diabloii.net/

Posts: 3,682,010

[Floris]

ANNOUNCEMENT : The first post is going to get updated this weekend and early next week. I will post here again once I am done with the update.

Thanks everybody for the great feedback and listing of sites you find.

[Rifleman000]

www.runescaperealm.com/forums/ (http://www.runescaperealm.com/forums/)

1,097,000 Posts

[Floris]

DONE!

All submitted URLs have been checked and added to the first post. The first post has been re-rendered from a-z and duplicates removed. To speed up the process in the future of adding url's I have removed the markup and the amount of posts.

Thanks everybody for the feedback, and keep those URLs coming.

[Ronak]

www.masalatalk.com/masalaboard (http://www.masalatalk.com/masalaboard) Posts: 4,632,376

www.xboard.us/bbb (http://www.xboard.us/bbb) :D ;) Posts: 3,371,455

[martyn_16v]

http://www.clubgti.com/forum. 1 million posts (just), 3 of them useful :D

[So SicK]

www.halo3forum.com (http://www.halo3forum.com)

This forum is amazing.

[mincecfc]

My site is: www.celticminded.com (http://www.celticminded.com)

As I post this...

Threads: 184,643, Posts: 2,083,026, Members: 10,990
Most users ever online was 882, 29-08-06 at 04:03 PM

[Floris]

Recently submitted urls are added, the list is now over 200 vb powered sites that have over 1 million posts.

[Kabuto]

http://foro.noticias3d.com

Threads: 155,447, Posts: 1,348,172, Members: 31,954

[TonyComix]

It all depends on the subject and how to enforce it to keep it going, I hope when my forum comes up, it blooms to that... well maybe not THAT HUGE but large enough to keep it awesome and running :)

[Floris]

For some reason Colin closed this thread, but I can't see why. Thanks everybody for contacting me, I have opened the thread up.

Please feel free to keep posting new URLs of forums who are mega big and have over a million posts on their site.

[Majoracle]

http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/

Threads: 47,654, Posts: 1,006,526, Members: 28,105

Just barely, but it's still over 1 million posts.

[Colin F]

So I did, not sure why though.
Probably misclicked, sorry.

[woodysfj40]

http://forum.ih8mud.com

Threads: 112,074, Posts: 1,462,106, Members: 16,726


...and 5 pathetic threads with 14,999 replies each....lol

[---MAD---]

http://www.habboxforum.com

[bobII]

http://www.raiderfans.net

Members: 12,615
Threads: 77,445
Posts: 1,477,302

[ultranet]

This is absolute fab. coool lists:eek:

[markov]

Great research. Great list.

[webtodd]

gamingforums.com is impressive...

Threads: 271,437, Posts: 3,232,751, Members: 152,701, Active Members: 4,879

[kardana]

also http://www.forumturka.org/tr/

[soldiertr]

www.gercekforumcuyuz.com (http://www.gercekforumcuyuz.com)

[TheBigCat]

http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/

Threads: 20,703, Posts: 1,077,432, Members: 17,425

About 1/4 of those posts we brought with us when we outgrew our original hosting on EZBored ;) almost a year ago. It's great to have a place where we have room to grow.

[Floris]

I've updated the list, submitted urls are added. Thanks everybody.

[Mazinger]

http://vb.vip600.com
http://www.shamela.net
http://vb.ozq8.com

[SSSlippy]

www.warseer.com (http://www.warseer.com) Threads: 53,521, Posts: 1,067,187, Members: 16,400, Active Members: 5,681

[Static-xbox]

http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/index.php

Just passed the One Million mark...(1,000,071 as I type this)

[1yesfan]

Hit it about 10 min ago...

Threads: 30,304, Posts: 1,000,030, Members: 7,516, Active Members: 3,214

[mlucek]

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/

Threads: 195,053, Posts: 1,796,971, Members: 27,590

[barnest2]

Threads: 194,920, Posts: 2,805,605, Members: 12,892

http://spartantailgate.com/forums/index.php

[Cyberdusk]

http://www.dogomania.pl/forum/ - 2,550,390 posts

[mlucek]

Hmmmm, dunno why this one isn't on here :p

http://www.cad-forums.com/

Threads: 47,119, Posts: 1,378,751, Members: 20,300, Active Members: 2,736

(if this is a repeat, please delete this message. I searched on this thread, but didn't see this site listed)

[CricketWeb]

The first cricket forums on the Internet to reach 1 million posts :)

Threads: 20,434, Posts: 1,000,491, Members: 9,946

[JeffJo]

Do you already have this one? I didn't see it listed.

http://www.falfiles.com/forums/index.php

vB version 2.2.6

Currently active users 2120, at 11:30 pm U.S. central time on a Tuesday night.

Currently 2022 members and 98 guests. The admin has apparently restricted guests to reduce the load on the server.

Members: 23,508. Threads: 169,338. Posts: 1,573,134.

Most users ever online was 6739 on July 22, 2005 at 13:32.

[Freezerator]

I don't see mine in the list, but here i go:

http://forum.scooterforum.net/forum/

Threads: 117,518, Posts: 2,046,701, Members: 20,832

[Cromwel]

I will try and make time to code a script to check the server type of each of these sites. I think it would be good information to see how many are Apache, Microsoft, etc.

[Rhy]

Great list of forums.. Ty for sharing :)

[RobFerrari]

www.ferrarichat.com (http://www.ferrarichat.com)

Threads: 127,365, Posts: 2,306,165, Members: 37,917

[JakeS]

Well its not mine but... http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

[Raptor]

im just about to hit 1 million posts

www.digital-forums.com (http://www.digital-forums.com)

[AWS]

im just about to hit 1 million posts

www.digital-forums.com (http://www.digital-forums.com)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: view_ad() in /homepages/3/d105883577/htdocs/global.php(559) : eval()'d code on line 19

Site doesn't load. Got the above error

[x42bn6]

As of today:

BattleForums (http://www.battleforums.com)

Threads: 111,230, Posts: 1,239,534, Members: 93,089We hit the 1,000,000 mark early last year, I think.

[Shankoty]

Great one