Huge vBulletins - 1 million posts and greater

[chrispadfield]

Here is a list of some of the biggest vBulletin powered boards on the web so we can all learn from their success. If people know of any not listed here (and I am sure there are lots) just post a reply and I will update the list: (last updated @ 30 June 2009 by Kerry-Anne)

http://www.techzonept.com/
http://www.pesfan.com/
http://www.advrider.com/forums/
http://forums.di.fm/
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/index.php
http://www.gamerzplanet.net/
http://www.traidnt.net/
http://www.flashback.info/
http://ubuntuforums.org/
http://www.altnation.com/forums/
http://www.united-forum.de/
http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/
http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/
http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/
http://www.craiovaforum.ro/forums/
http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/
http://www.theoldergamers.com/forum/
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/
http://www.devotedfansnetwork.com/forum/
http://www.boxerworld.com/forums/
http://www.serebiiforums.com/
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/
http://forums.narutofan.com/
http://narutomania.com/forums/
http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/
http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/
http://www.simforum.de/
http://www.bmx-forum.com/
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/
http://www.esoterikforum.at/forum/
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/
http://www.warseer.com/forums/
http://www.midgard-forum.de/
http://www.carriefans.com/forum/
http://forums.macrumors.com/
http://forums.gamebattles.com/
http://www.mlgpro.com/forum/
http://halo3forum.com/
http://www.3si.org/
http://my.is/
http://www.srtforums.com/
http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/
http://forum.ih8mud.com/
http://forum.animewolken.nl/index.php
http://www.psicofxp.com/
http://forums.wheresgeorge.com/index.php
http://forums.drom.ru
http://www.pprune.org/forums/
http://forums.turbobricks.com/
http://www.xceedspeed.com/forums/
http://pirate4x4.com/forum/
http://www.pakstop.com/pmforums/
http://www.calaisturbo.com.au/
http://vb.vip600.com
http://www.shamela.net
http://vb.ozq8.com
http://www.warseer.com/forums/
http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/
http://www.yesfans.com/
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/
http://spartantailgate.com/forums/
http://www.cad-forums.com/
http://forum.cricketweb.net/
http://forum.scooterforum.net/forum/
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
http://www.battleforums.com/
http://bibleforums.org/forum/
http://www.sport4ever.com/vb/
http://www.dogomania.pl/forum/
http://foro.noticias3d.com/
http://www.celticminded.com/
http://www.halo3forum.com/
http://www.clubgti.com/forum/
http://allboards.lionhead.com/
http://animenation.net/forums/
http://antsmarching.org/forum/
http://apolyton.net/forums/
http://baby.ourlittleuniverse.com/
http://bbs.clubplanet.com/
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
http://board.muse.mu/
http://board.rapmusic.com/
http://boards.cruisecritic.com/
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/ ADULT CONTENT ADVISORY
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/
http://boards1.wizards.com/
http://comingsoon.net/forums/
http://d2nforum.gamigo.de/
http://debat.jubii.dk/
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/
http://foro.alkon.com.ar/
http://foros.3dgames.com.ar/
http://forum.antu.com/
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/
http://forum.digitalfernsehen.de/forum/
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/
http://forum.dutchbodybuilding.com/
http://forum.gateworld.net/
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/
http://forum.html.it/forum/
http://forum.lowcarber.org/
http://forum.ragezone.com/
http://forum.rscnet.org/
http://forum.scholieren.com/
http://forum.scooterforum.net/forum/
http://forum.teamxbox.com/
http://forum.valinor.com.br/
http://forums.adventchildren.net/
http://forums.amrdiabworld.com/
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/
http://forums.bigbigsavings.com/
http://forums.civfanatics.com/
http://forums.clubrsx.com/
http://forums.cpfc.org/
http://forums.diabloii.net/
http://forums.freshalloy.com/
http://forums.gamebattles.com/
http://forums.goha.ru/
http://forums.hardwarezone.com
http://forums.jeuxonline.info/
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/
http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/ ADULT CONTENT ADVISORY
http://forums.maxima.org/
http://forums.mtbr.com/
http://forums.mtgnews.com/
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/
http://forums.nyyfans.com/
http://forums.offtopic.com/
http://forums.pcper.com/
http://forums.signonsandiego.com/
http://forums.sohh.com/
http://forums.somethingawful.com/
http://forums.spacebattles.com/
http://forums.speedguide.net/
http://forums.stangnet.com/
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/
http://forums.techguy.org/
http://forums.webrats.com/
http://forums.winamp.com/
http://home.ourlittleuniverse.com/
http://joblo.com/forums/
http://lost-forum.com/
http://montrealracing.com/forums/
http://murmurs.com/talk/
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/
http://reefcentral.com/forums/
http://sbw.sportbikes.com
http://sports-boards.net/
http://visualbasicforum.com/
http://webhostingtalk.com/
http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/
http://www.antsmarching.org/forum/
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/
http://www.atforumz.com
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/
http://www.bigfooty.com/
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/
http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/
http://www.bmwfaq.com/
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/
http://www.bodyweb.it/forums/
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/
http://www.cgtalk.com/
http://www.christianforums.com/
http://www.christianguitar.org/forums/
http://www.cncforen.de/
http://www.computergames.ro/forum/
http://www.corral.net/forums/
http://www.dbforums.com/
http://www.disboards.com/
http://www.doctoramor.com/foro/ ADULT CONTENT ADVISORY
http://www.dvd4arab.com/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/
http://www.edmplanet.com/
http://www.elaborare.info/forum/vbulletin/
http://www.et8.net/
http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/
http://www.forum.hr/
http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/
http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/
http://www.gamingforums.com/
http://www.genmay.net/
http://www.glocktalk.com/
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/
http://www.gunsnet.net/forums/
http://www.gurn.net/forums/
http://www.hardforum.com/
http://www.hfboards.com/
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/
http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/
http://www.howardforums.com/
http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/mainpage.php
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/
http://www.ina-community.com/forums/
http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/
http://www.ironmaiden.org/
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/
http://www.jeepsunlimited.com/forums/
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/
http://www.kirupa.com/forum
http://www.literotica.com:81/forum/ ADULT CONTENT ADVISORY
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/
http://www.lucasforums.com/
http://www.mainframeforum.com/
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/
http://www.mini2.com/forum/
http://www.montada.com/
http://www.motorsportforums.com/
http://www.msusenet.com/
http://www.mtb-news.de/forum
http://www.musiker-board.de/vb/
http://www.mustangworld.com/forums/
http://www.mx6.com/forums/
http://www.mysticwicks.com/
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/
http://www.notebookforums.com/
http://www.ocforums.com/
http://www.overgrow.com/edge/
http://www.pakkotoisto.com/vbulletin/
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/
http://www.pbnation.com/
http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/
http://www.rage3d.com/board/
http://www.rctech.net/forum/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/forum/
http://www.runescaperealm.com/forums/
http://www.scifi-forum.de/
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums.php
http://www.sharkyforums.com/
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/
http://www.smashboards.com/
http://www.softballfans.com/forums/
http://www.sohh.com/forums/
http://www.spielerboard.de/
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/
http://www.sportscardforum.com/
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/
http://www.superherohype.com/forums/
http://www.superhonda.com/forum/
http://www.sybermoms.com/forums/
http://www.tampaforums.com/forums/
http://www.techimo.com/forum/
http://www.teenspot.com/boards/
http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/
http://www.tournament.com/forums/
http://www.trackforum.com/forums/
http://www.trackpads.com/forum/
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/
http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/
http://www.turkeyforum.com/satforum/
http://www.turkforum.net/
http://www.tverlebnis.com/forum/
http://www.tvlinksonline.com/boards/
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/
http://www.unrealforum.de/forum/
http://www.vbforums.com/
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
http://www.visordown.com/forums/
http://www.warriornation.net/Forum/
http://www.wass-up.com/forum/
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/
http://www.xtratime.org/forums/
http://www.masalatalk.com/masalaboard
http://www.xboard.us/bbb
http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/
http://forum.ih8mud.com/
http://www.habboxforum.com/
http://www.raiderfans.net/
http://gamingforums.com/
http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/
http://www.janime.eu
http://www.tombraiderforums.com/
http://www.modthesims2.com/forums.php
http://www.velocidadmaxima.com/forum/
http://www.rcthai.net
http://board.gulli.com/
http://forum.chip.de/
http://www.ioff.de/
http://club.cdfreaks.com/
http://www.dogsey.com/dog-forums.php
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/
http://www.diaperswappers.com/forum/
http://www.cruiselinefans.com/
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/
http://www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/index.php
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/
http://www.satelliteguys.us/index.php
http://www.facepunch.com/index.php
http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/
http://forums.rennlist.com/
http://www.thehighroad.org/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/
http://www.puff.com/forums/vb/
http://www.q8manar.com/vb/
http://www.elsf.net/
http://audiokarma.org/forums/
http://www.baghdad4ever.net/vb
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/
http://www.chazhound.com/forums/
http://www.jdmuniverse.com/forums/
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
http://forum.belgiumdigital.com/
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/
http://www.powwows.com/gathering/
http://www.giveupalready.com/
http://www.laneros.com/forum.php
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/
http://www.hayabusa.org/forum/
http://www.crochetville.org/forum/
http://www.pspiso.com/
http://forum.tamerlovers.com/
http://www.frmtr.com/index.php
http://forums.cgsociety.org/
http://www.thedugout.tv/community/
http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/
http://www.blutschwerter.de/
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/
http://www.revleft.com/vb/
http://www.utdforum.com/forum/index.php
http://forums.crackberry.com/
http://www.teenhut.net/
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/index.php
http://www.kolozzeum.com/forum/
http://bbs.rsownersclub.co.uk/
http://www.fanforum.com/
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums
http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/indexf.php
http://www.nwtekno.org/index.php
http://www.v7n.com/forums/
http://www.hiphop-universe.com/underground/
http://forums.bellybelly.com.au/forums/
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/
http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/
http://forum.saxontheweb.net/
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/forums/index.php
http://www.fxp.co.il/
http://vmkmagic.com/vbulletin/forums.php
http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/
http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/
http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/
http://www.yotatech.com/forumindex.php
http://www.1130cc.com/forums/
http://forums.nonewbs.com/ ADULT CONTENT ADVISORY
http://www.honda-tech.com/

[Cary]

Nice List! :)

http://forums.bigbigsavings.com/ - Over one million posts

[John]

I would like to proudly add VB World forums too! :D

http://www.vbforums.com/

*The original vBulletin*

[Floris]

Originally posted by John
I would like to proudly add VB World forums too! :D

http://www.vbforums.com/

*The original vBulletin*
Total Posts: 1,002,992
.. oi, close call there :)

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by John
I would like to proudly add VB World forums too! :D

http://www.vbforums.com/

*The original vBulletin*

hehe, it hadn't quite made it when I started that list :) I wonder how long until either here or vb.org makes it :)

[rylin]

http://mgoforum.com
of course, there's quite a bit of spam, but we frequently kill off spamthreads etc.. postid is nearing 1.7m in a bit ;)

[Gary King]

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 :):)

[chrispadfield]

Problem with members is it is easy to fake and some people can just import all their members from other bits of the site, e.g. www.flashkit.com

It would be better to do it on active users but without a method for determining an average amount of online users this is not really possible.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by chrispadfield
Problem with members is it is easy to fake and some people can just import all their members from other bits of the site, e.g. www.flashkit.com

It would be better to do it on active users but without a method for determining an average amount of online users this is not really possible.

yes, that is true... maybe for active users, we could do # of posts / # of members ?

[Martz]

Number of registered users isn't a good indication of how big a forum is IMHO. The ratio of registered users and users online (within, of course, a respectable cookie timeout) would mean a lot to me if I was comparing forum size.

[jmd]

Alot of boards out there have huge numbers of members but about 5 % of the members actually post.

I have seen many 5000 plus member boards with 8 to 10 people on line lol

I think its about time to purge the dead members on some of these boards and get back to reality.

Must be an ego thing I guess

:)

[MattR]

The problem we have is that it seems every time we (used to) purge not a couple weeks later we'll get people who say "What happened to my account?"

That and people who are banned like to come back and be annoying. Still, I've long considered wiping people out who haven't posted in 6 months. :)

[nuno]

also http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/

[Gary King]

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

[zachb]

http://www.overgrow.com/edge/ just hit the mark.

[rockergrrl]

The Hole Message Board has 2 million plus posts...
http://www.hole.com/soapbox/

[chrispadfield]

Thanks everyone. Keep those links coming :)

[nuno]

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/
http://www.sharkyforums.com/ <- will be hitting 1 million mark pretty soon
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/

[Faruk]

You know, right, that people will be telling their boardmembers to check out this thread and see if they have an interest in any of these huge communities, and if so, to post there and have links back to his/her own board, eventually leading to even more spam on those huge places. right?

Or did I give 500 people a 'good idea' just now?

;)

[nuno]

http://forums.paintballcity.com/

[heretic]

Originally posted by nuno
http://forums.paintballcity.com/


that forum reeks of c-pr0mpt :p

[John]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite
Last time I checked: ~ 4,307,027 posts :p
http://forums.off-topic.net/index.php?s=

Is it me or is that count about 200x out? I made it <200k messages! :confused:

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by John


Is it me or is that count about 200x out? I made it <200k messages! :confused:

That will teach me not to check first!

I added the rest, including sharky as in about 2 days it will have made it :)

[John]

http://www.some-random-forums.com/ubb/

3 zillion posts :D :p

[andrewpfeifer]

*Waits for Chris to add that one to the list*



:p

[chrispadfield]

hehe ... in my defense I thought it was a big one having visited before. I am surprised it is not bigger giving how many people there are currently online now. Perhaps some forums are hidden? As you need to register to do absolutly anything I am not going to take the effort to fine out :)

[andrewpfeifer]

If I wasn't quite so lazy, I'd register and tell ya.;) Maybe later.:D

[eva2000]

Originally posted by John
http://www.some-random-forums.com/ubb/

3 zillion posts :D :p doh i was expecting an actual forum at that link :o

i'm closing in on 0.7 million still a while to go :)

[Gary King]

Originally posted by John


Is it me or is that count about 200x out? I made it <200k messages! :confused:

How ? I just checked the latest post ID, and it is 4,335,538 ... I guess I don't know what I'm doing :confused:

[andrewpfeifer]

It could be that lots of posts have been deleted. Old post ID's don't get reused.

[Gary King]

It could be that lots of posts have been deleted.

Yes, I figure that that's probably it.


Old post ID's don't get reused.

Yep, I already knew that :p

[bigmattyh]

It would also be cool to log the max users ever. I just saw this at off-topic:

There are currently 375 members and 29 guests on the boards.

That's a LOT of active members!

[andrewpfeifer]

Check www.fanhome.com. :)

[Gary King]

Most Users Online

Off-topic.net = 817 members
FanHome.com = 850 members

close :p:p

[MattR]

Our max was actually 1334 (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42195) but I clear it out periodically (so I can see where the averages tend to be).

[ethank]

Reached half a million! :)

[Gary King]

Originally posted by ethank
Reached half a million! :)

You guys still got a way to go, then. Not bad, tho :D

[ethank]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite


You guys still got a way to go, then. Not bad, tho :D

I tried doing logrithmic projection. We should reach 1 million by the end of the year :D

[krs-one]

www.literotica.com/forum

Its an adult board, but it has almost 2 million posts.

-Vic

[andrewpfeifer]

Originally posted by krs-one
www.literotica.com/forum

Its an adult board, but it has almost 2 million posts.

-Vic

Whoa, one forum on that board has more than 1 million posts.

[ccd2]

Yup, porn is what the internet is all about.

I wonder how big the mySQL databases are? Can they take something so big? I wonder how many hard drives they span. Can a mySQL file be cut up or would it have to be put together using RAID?

[Static-xbox]

http://www.gameadvice.com/forums <--Almost 2,000,000(post ID)

[rapspits]

www.rapmusic.com

[JungleMan]

www.hardforum.com

The site that I moderate, www.amdmb.com is only 150,000 posts short...;)

[andrewpfeifer]

http://talk.livedaily.citysearch.com/

That one has over 1,000,000 also...

[VirtueTech]

Originally posted by heretic



that forum reeks of c-pr0mpt :p

:)

That's because he made the postbit and header buttons you see. As well as the postbit inspiration. Corey knows of this. I made sure it was ok with him first before anything was worked on. All graphics and work are original.

[zachb]

http://www.sportbikeworld.com/

[roxics]

There doesn't seem to be any real pattern to any of these either. Some of them look good and some of them look horrible in my opinion. One of them was even black which people tend to say is a no-no in the forum world.

Their subject matter varies a lot too. Some are more jack-of-all-trades and others are more specific.

I guess the only thing that might be true of all of them is that they have been around a long time. But I don't know that for sure. That's just assumed.

Interesting list though. I guess it might just be a matter of getting the right people together and from there having it snow ball and spread by word of mouth.

Makes you wonder if these people are either very successful communicators or have no real life. :D

[nuno]

http://www.spielerboard.de

[tamarian]

I like to use "View today's threads" to see how busy a forum is, since the number of posts can be misleading based on how long the forum was running. But the problem is, many of us disable this feature to guests, to save some server load.

From the looks of it, FanHome.com and RapMusic.com have the most posts at ~4 million each!

Of course, ther are some private forums with well over a million posts, but, they're private :)

[Hotte]

*DING*
1 Mio hit today :)
http://www.unrealforum.de

[freaky]

Originally posted by John


Is it me or is that count about 200x out? I made it <200k messages! :confused:

posts are deleted every 48 hours from the main forum, 14-16k posts a day

[georgec]

Wow...amazing. I wonder how often errors get generated due to corruptions in the database with such forums.

[Arkham]

Originally posted by tamarian
I like to use "View today's threads" to see how busy a forum is, since the number of posts can be misleading based on how long the forum was running. But the problem is, many of us disable this feature to guests, to save some server load.


Does it increase server load by a disproportionate amount or something? i.e. What's the difference between hitting"View New Since..." after 1 day, and just hitting "View Today's Threads". Wouldn't they be about the same?

Just wondering... So _that's_ why I have to manually edit the URL on some boards to use 'getdaily'... ;)

[tamarian]

Originally posted by Arkham


Does it increase server load by a disproportionate amount or something? i.e. What's the difference between hitting"View New Since..." after 1 day, and just hitting "View Today's Threads". Wouldn't they be about the same?



No, not a disproportionate load, I don't think. But a load none the less. I restrict guests to simply reading threads, and nothing else. This allows them to see what the forum is about, and saves the resources for registered members.

[Meirion]

*very proud*

Our site is 32 minutes into being a "huge" vBulletin.

Yes, we had our millionth post today, at 12:00:23 !

By a newbie with only 23 posts under their belt. The whole place was going a bit mad, the post counts were flying round.

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

See our total page at:

http://www.gurn.net/forums/totals.php

The winner has got themselves free entry into some of the UKs top clubs to keep them partying for quite a while yet, plus a goody bag of loads of promo stuff we've got hold of.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by Meirion
*very proud*

Our site is 32 minutes into being a "huge" vBulletin.

Yes, we had our millionth post today, at 12:00:23 !

By a newbie with only 23 posts under their belt. The whole place was going a bit mad, the post counts were flying round.

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

See our total page at:

http://www.gurn.net/forums/totals.php

The winner has got themselves free entry into some of the UKs top clubs to keep them partying for quite a while yet, plus a goody bag of loads of promo stuff we've got hold of.

Sounds great!! But I can't seem to axx your board :confused:

[Meirion]

grrr looks like it's blown!
bet there's a right mess. Last time this happened I was cleaning posts out of the air vents for days.

[Meirion]

k, is back now. 'ave a look.

[Arkham]

Originally posted by tamarian



No, not a disproportionate load, I don't think. But a load none the less. I restrict guests to simply reading threads, and nothing else. This allows them to see what the forum is about, and saves the resources for registered members.

Sorry, I'm an idiot.

I didn't notice that you said "guest" -- I was trying to figure out why one would disable getdaily for everyone. ;)

Thanks for the info, it all makes sense now. ;)

Cheers.

[Clark_Kent]

woo hoo..Paintball city Represent!

[nuno]

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/

[Ludachris]

Anyone know of any LARGE Windows-based VB forums??? I'm trying to see if it makes sense for the company I work for to look into it...

[tamarian]

Hmmm, BigSoccer.com seem to have purged all their posts, they barely have 5,000 posts available.

[HenryG2]

http://forums.teamxbox.com/

1.1 Million posts.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by HenryG2
http://forums.teamxbox.com/

1.1 Million posts.

Hmm Microsoft is doing quite good :rolleyes:

[Janitor]

wow - we always wondered how we measured up to other vb boards ... its good to see these other large vb sites!

I think we made the switch to VB from UBB about 2 years ago - UBB was killing our server :( ... and thats when we had maybe 15,000 members. I remember pleading with TED from UBB for help (server issues) on the newer versions of UBB, but at the time, they only seemed to care about their commercial version and seemed to forget about the little guys that helped get them where they were. They are a great example of the Fat Cat Syndrome. You know, where the cat who chases all the mice, gets lazy - and here comes along VB to take their market share. :)

We still have one forum that has around 600,000 post, we had a problem when trying to prune old post one night, and it was just easier to close it down and open a new one. If there is one thing I wish could be (maybe there is) a hack to delete post in the blink of an eye.

We have to give alot of credit to Liz - who has helped create some unique backend hacks that make our hobby of running that board alot easier. Without her help, we wouldn't of made it this far.

Some people ask me all the time, how did we grow so fast? We never ever spent a dime on outside marketing. When we started, we used to give away free mousepads and t-shirts when members got to 500 post. I think we must of given away at 500 shirts that 1st year alone- ( need a good deal on tee's goto: http://www.ndesigns.net/screen ) I suggest if you want your board to grow, be involved with the members. Listen to them! Make sure you pick great mods that won't run off your members.

So for those that haven't purchased a VB yet, I suggest you go now and get your copy: www.InfoPOOP.com lol!!!

[eva2000]

Originally posted by tamarian
Hmmm, BigSoccer.com seem to have purged all their posts, they barely have 5,000 posts available. they had a database corruption/crash and decided to start over i believe :(

[eva2000]

Originally posted by nuno
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/ 1+ million posts just discussing knives :eek:

[eva2000]

another to add http://www.ls1.com/forums/

[ccd1]

I'll never make it there because I delete all of my inactive users :|

[Bandicoot]

http://www.gameadvice.com

I'm actuallya supermod over there, I'm just visiting this end of things trying to find out about vB3.0 - and to see if theres a suggestions corner. lol.

[Arkham]

Originally posted by baragon0
I'll never make it there because I delete all of my inactive users :|

Heh, something more forums should do.

There's no point in saying "we have 10K registered users!" when there are only 100 active users and 9900 Never-Come-Backs.

It's an old trick some BBS Sysops used to do to out-do other boards... :)

It's sorta like saying "We have 50,000 posts!!" when they're mostly one-liners like "Yeah." ";);)!!!", "I agree", and "wut'up".

Actually, it'd be great to have a floating user count option, i.e. Total Registered Users *and* a definable "Active Users" count, where you could set it to X months back...

[Meirion]

1048000 posts on Windows 2000 server at http://www.gurn.net/forums/

[Bandicoot]

Originally posted by Bandicoot
http://www.gameadvice.com

I'm actuallya supermod over there, I'm just visiting this end of things trying to find out about vB3.0 - and to see if theres a suggestions corner. lol.

Damn. I found the suggestions corner, but you need to be a vB member/customer to post in that forum. Could a member or maybe a vB moderator suggest on my behalf a Supermoderator CP, which would contain the standard mod cp, along with some of the features from the admin cp - like the ability to update member profiles (this would be useful so that smods could a) change member names if so desired and b) unabn members upon moderator requests).

Maybe another alternative to the same goal would be to break apart the Admin Control Panal, like the mod cp can be. Like, there is the option to ban people on the mod cp, but that option is set as smod only where I assist, same with the mass move and mass prune. This way, any other details that the administrator feels his staff is trustworthy with can be dealt with as well (like creating forums - but not the deletion of, for example).

Thankyou to whomever forwards my suggestions.

[Aviation Forum]

good plan

[eva2000]

http://forums.i-club.com/forums/ with 2+ million posts

[Gary King]

Originally posted by eva2000
http://forums.i-club.com/forums/ with 2+ million posts

That forum has extremely active members. I'm betting they delete inactive users :)

[nuno]

http://forum.hwupgrade.it/index.php
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/index.php

[chrispadfield]

Updated the list, hopefully everyone mentioned here is on it now.

[nuno]

oops :D
Another one -> http://feedback.blackisle.com/forums/index.php

[nuno]

http://www.xtratime.com/forums/ :D

[Gary King]

There sure are a lot now heh :eek:

[Gary King]

I have posted this, but I guess I'll post it again for a reminder.

http://forums.off-topic.net/index.php?s=

[nuno]

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

[Nupraptor]

We've got about a quarter of a million posts at my board, and growing quick. We get about 1k posts a day. :) I might have to find another host soon.

[Dave#]

Originally posted by nuno
http://forum.html.it/forum/

cough *powered by? *

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite
I have posted this, but I guess I'll post it again for a reminder.

http://forums.off-topic.net/index.php?s=

While i do know that you have had 5+ million posts they are being prunned and thus the database does not hold that many. It is quite easy to fake this type of thing by just adding a high entry into the thread or post table and starting from there (i know this has not been done here) but have made the decision to only include forums where the 1 million + posts are still in the database. Part of the idea of this list is to show vbulletin working under the stress of a large database but pruning does not show this.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by chrispadfield


While i do know that you have had 5+ million posts they are being prunned and thus the database does not hold that many. It is quite easy to fake this type of thing by just adding a high entry into the thread or post table and starting from there (i know this has not been done here) but have made the decision to only include forums where the 1 million + posts are still in the database. Part of the idea of this list is to show vbulletin working under the stress of a large database but pruning does not show this.

Yes, I understand :)

BTW, concerning Dave#'s post, I also notice that the copyright info is missing :confused:

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite


Yes, I understand :)

BTW, concerning Dave#'s post, I also notice that the copyright info is missing :confused:

You can pay to have it removed; however i do not know if they have or have not paid.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by chrispadfield


You can pay to have it removed; however i do not know if they have or have not paid.

Yes I know that you can pay to have it removed :) I have asked that question before I purchased my license, and found that it was .. far beyond what I expected, really heh ;)

I suggest their license be overviewed, then :)

[Chris Stewart]

Originally posted by Fazle


posts are deleted every 48 hours from the main forum, 14-16k posts a day

:wavey: Fazle. It's CompiledMonkey. :)

[CyberMoa]

Originally posted by John
I would like to proudly add VB World forums too! :D

http://www.vbforums.com/

*The original vBulletin*


Hey about 3,000 of those posts are mine .... you can thank me later John ... now if l was to get my account back.....


also www.dogbomb.co.uk l think, at least they get something like a million hits per month.....

[Gary King]

Originally posted by CyberMoa



Hey about 3,000 of those posts are mine .... you can thank me later John ... now if l was to get my account back.....


also www.dogbomb.co.uk l think, at least they get something like a million hits per month.....

Looks like they've only got 26,415 posts.

[JungleMan]

http://www.amdforums.com/index.php?s=

999,913 posts right now, but by the time anyone important reads this it'll be at 1M.

Thanks :)

[eva2000]

Originally posted by JungleMan
http://www.amdforums.com/index.php?s=

999,913 posts right now, but by the time anyone important reads this it'll be at 1M.

Thanks :) right now 999,961 but i thought amdforums prunes... i swore i saw them at >1m a few weeks ago ?

[Gary King]

Also can someone please edit the first post in this thread? It was last edited 08-05-02.

[nuno]

Yup, lastpostid right now is 1129416 :cool:

[nuno]

A couple more
http://bbs.clubplanet.com/
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/

[Dave#]

too funny


http://community.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=729094322&f=3700965652&m=6323081566


and


http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=002171

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by eva2000
right now 999,961 but i thought amdforums prunes... i swore i saw them at >1m a few weeks ago ?

Not to my knowledge they don't ;) anyways...they are above 1M posts now so add them in ;)

[rylin]

Originally posted by Dave#
too funny


http://community.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=729094322&f=3700965652&m=6323081566

*lol* :)

[eze_tiger]

God, people cheat like this? I'm too old to play... clicking out...:rolleyes: clicking out

[MarkB]

http://www.eyeboards.com/
Posts: 1,009,499

[Janitor]

our box was rooted this past weekend - :(

we just deleted 4.2 million post :(

so we had to back up our board - and it was easier just to delete the post because of time.

[alexp]

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/

~1.5M after a huge import yesterday.

:D

[chatterbox100]

..........what.............:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[JulianDelphiki]

showthread.php?s=&postid=1023814990#post1023814990

from the url of my latest post on hardforum...does that mean just over 1 billion posts?

(they do purge the database quite a bit, there was a forum called "general mayhem" that hit 1 million posts every month or so, it has since been removed, too much server load)

[MattR]

Not really, no. That number can easily be manipulated.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by MattR
Not really, no. That number can easily be manipulated.

How? Sounds interesting.

[MattR]

ALTER TABLE tbl_name AUTO_INCREMENT = XYZ

will re-set it to XYZ.

I think you can also change it when you insert a new row and specify a value for the auto_increment.

You could also insert many rows to the post table in a loop to artificially inflate the count.

[Gary King]

Ah thanks, will remember to try that :D:rolleyes:

[jedimastereLmo]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite
Last time I checked: ~ 4,307,027 posts :p
http://forums.off-topic.net/index.php?s= :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: RULE #1!!!!!!!

[Awais]

Originally posted by jedimastereLmo
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: RULE #1!!!!!!!

u registered here just to say that? :D :p

[jedimastereLmo]

Originally posted by Awais
u registered here just to say that? :D :p :D Fazle should be proud :p

[slfmade]

are there any forums that get more than 14-16K posts per day? just wondering, cause Fazle's seems to get the most action, even though it doesnt have as many posts still in the database

and yes, that would be rule #1 blak n wite :D

and i registered jsut to say this as well

[Gary King]

Rule #1? Pardon me?

[heretic]

http://forums.stangnet.com/

[Darth Cow]

The MTGnews.com Forums (http://forums.mtgnews.com) just joined the elite list today :).

[Arkham]

Originally posted by slfmade
are there any forums that get more than 14-16K posts per day? just wondering, cause Fazle's seems to get the most action, even though it doesnt have as many posts still in the database

and yes, that would be rule #1 blak n wite :D

and i registered jsut to say this as well

What exactly is "Rule #1"?

Getting more than 15K posts a day? Having "as many posts still in the database"? Coveting your neighbour's forum?

You're not making much sense.

[HenryG2]

Hmmm...

Flashkit recently upgraded to vB 2.2.8.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by HenryG2
Hmmm...

Flashkit recently upgraded to vB 2.2.8.

Damn that must've took a while to edit every single file :p

[Synthetic]

If we didn't constantly prune we would have passed the million post mark years ago ;)

anyway http://tntforum.com/ :D

averages about 300-500 people online all day long...

[Gary King]

Originally posted by Synthetic
If we didn't constantly prune we would have passed the million post mark years ago ;)

anyway http://tntforum.com/ :D

averages about 300-500 people online all day long...

What's the main topic of discussion at TNT Forum? No guests allowed :eek:

[nuno]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite
What's the main topic of discussion at TNT Forum? No guests allowed :eek:
Warez :mad:

[UserName]

Originally posted by Arkham
What exactly is "Rule #1"?


The first rule of Fightclub is...

...you don't talk about Fightclub.

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Synthetic
If we didn't constantly prune we would have passed the million post mark years ago ;)

anyway http://tntforum.com/ :D

averages about 300-500 people online all day long...

But your cookie timeout is set to 120 minutes, no? Also, i'm only seeing 210 on right now. Just saying... :D

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by nuno
Warez :mad:

Isn't it against vbulletin's terms of service to use their software for sites that discuss warez?



vBulletin may not be used for anything that would represent or is associated with an Intellectual Property Violation, including, but not limited to, engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by individuals, corporations, or other entities.

[JamesUS]

Yes, it is.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by nuno
Warez :mad:

Hmm then that would be a dumb move to publicly post their board link here.

[nuno]

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/
http://bbs.clubplanet.com/

[zachb]

http://www.mgoforum.com/

[Synthetic]

Originally posted by nuno
Warez :mad:

thanks for your consern but YES it is a legal forum, with a very valid license :D

[Synthetic]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
Isn't it against vbulletin's terms of service to use their software for sites that discuss warez?

Nope, it's not illegal to discuss anything :)

The site admins have already got assurance on that matter directly from jelsoft about the legality of that kind of discussion on vB forums

[MattR]

www.glocktalk.com

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Synthetic
Nope, it's not illegal to discuss anything :)

The site admins have already got assurance on that matter directly from jelsoft about the legality of that kind of discussion on vB forums

Well, i've heard much differently from mods on the forums, not just from their terms. Would be nice of a staff member cleared this up.

[Gary King]

Maybe a vBulletin staff should check out their VIP section? Might be sharing warez, as one of the forum descriptions states:


FTPs - Software Zone
Are you looking for apps, games, mp3z...?

By the way, looks like they don't have a vBulletin copyright showing anywhere; maybe that should get looked into to, to see if they've paid for that to be removed.

heh :)

[Steve Machol]

Synthetic, please follow the instructions in my sig to show you are a licensed customer. Also could you please restore the vBulletin/Jelsoft copyright to your footer template? Right now you are in violation of the license agreement. At a minimum the copyright must read:

vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2002, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Thank you. :)

[Synthetic]

Originally posted by Steve Machol
Synthetic, please follow the instructions in my sig to show you are a licensed customer. Also could you please restore the vBulletin/Jelsoft copyright to your footer template? Right now you are in violation of the license agreement. At a minimum the copyright must read:

vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2002, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Thank you. :)

If that were my forum i'd be happy to help you, but it's not and i'm not really sure where you got the idea that it was?

Infact i registered there a few months ago and have never even posted. But the first thing I did when i found the forum is ask them about the legality of discussinng software and other questionable material on a vB forum and the admin assured me that he already had written permission stating that it was not against vBulletin's license agreement ;)

If you don't belive that to be true, then your more than welcome to register there and ask an admin yourself :)

Oh and about the copyright statment, I belive they payed the extra to get the rights not to use it :D

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Synthetic
If that were my forum i'd be happy to help you, but it's not and i'm not really sure where you got the idea that it was?

Infact i registered there a few months ago and have never even posted. But the first thing I did when i found the forum is ask them about the legality of discussinng software and other questionable material on a vB forum and the admin assured me that he already had written permission stating that it was not against vBulletin's license agreement ;)

If you don't belive that to be true, then your more than welcome to register there and ask an admin yourself :)

Oh and about the copyright statment, I belive they payed the extra to get the rights not to use it :D

You shouldn't be speaking on their behalf unless you're a spokesperson for their company. All it will do is confuse people. I don't know about the vbulletin staff, but i'm taking everything you're saying with a grain of salt.

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by Synthetic
If that were my forum i'd be happy to help you, but it's not and i'm not really sure where you got the idea that it was?
Here's where I got that idea:

Originally posted by Synthetic
If we didn't constantly prune we would have passed the million post mark years ago

anyway http://tntforum.com/

averages about 300-500 people online all day long...It was a natural assumption given your post. :)

[Arkham]

Originally posted by Synthetic
thanks for your consern but YES it is a legal forum, with a very valid license :D

"TNTcrackers Official Forum"

So you all talk about cheese and crackers?

[Synthetic]

Originally posted by Steve Machol
Here's where I got that idea:
It was a natural assumption given your post. :)

Sorry about that I didn't mean it too sound like it was mine, I do see how you got that impression now ;)

[Synthetic]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
You shouldn't be speaking on their behalf unless you're a spokesperson for their company. All it will do is confuse people. I don't know about the vbulletin staff, but i'm taking everything you're saying with a grain of salt.

I'm not speaking for them i'm merely giving my input in regards to some questions related to them, if one of there admins was here to speak for them then I would have stayed out of it, but they aren't.

Your taking everything i'm saying with a grain of salt? Um ok... good for you... and I should care because why?

If you don't like or belive something I have said, that's fine no one is forceing you to be in this conversation ;)

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Synthetic
I'm not speaking for them i'm merely giving my input in regards to some questions related to them, if one of there admins was here to speak for them then I would have stayed out of it, but they aren't.

Your taking everything i'm saying with a grain of salt? Um ok... good for you... and I should care because why?

If you don't like or belive something I have said, that's fine no one is forceing you to be in this conversation ;)

You are not simply "giving your imput". You are speaking on their behalf and defending their site in an unappropriate manner. It is not your business whether or not they have paid for the copyright to be removed or whether their site has warez or not... and unless you're an admin there, I don't see how it concerns you. If my site was being accused of hosting warez content and illegally removing the copyright, I sincerely hope members wouldn't come here and start speaking on my company's behalf. All that does is cause confusion, especially when you don't have the company's permission to be speaking on their behalf. Furthermore, even if you are an admin, clearing your case publically probably won't help much, so I suggest you e-mail jelsolt directly.

Now i'm done posting in this thread and hopefully a mod will lock it eventually as it's gotten way off track (plus I think we've gotten about 99% of the 1,000,000+ boards out there already).

skuz

[Synthetic]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
You are not simply "giving your imput". You are speaking on their behalf and defending their site in an unappropriate manner. It is not your business whether or not they have paid for the copyright to be removed or whether their site has warez or not... and unless you're an admin there, I don't see how it concerns you. If my site was being accused of hosting warez content and illegally removing the copyright, I sincerely hope members wouldn't come here and start speaking on my company's behalf. All that does is cause confusion, especially when you don't have the company's permission to be speaking on their behalf. Furthermore, even if you are an admin, clearing your case publically probably won't help much, so I suggest you e-mail jelsolt directly.

Now i'm done posting in this thread and hopefully a mod will lock it eventually as it's gotten way off track (plus I think we've gotten about 99% of the 1,000,000+ boards out there already).

skuz

First off, it's none of your bussiness to care to start with, much less tell me what I should be doing :rolleyes:

And secondly there is no case to clear up lol, they are a legal forum with a valid license (which is already more than I know about you) ;)

I'm done here aswell, didn't imagine all these members to be so retarded from just posting a link, some of you really need to get a life and find more constructive things to do ;)

Adios....

[SkuZZy]

Well... it actually seems off-topic to post a link now... but hopefully it will help get this topic back on track after synthetic decided to stop by.

Anyways, you can add http://www.tribalwar.com/forums to the list... they have 1.5 million posts and right now 126 members online in the past 5 minutes! Pretty impressive for forums based only on 1 game :eek:

[TurboFC3S]

You can add www.rx7club.com to the list now too. We just broke the 1 million post barrier ...

[JamesUS]

Only forum Administrators should post comments on behalf of their forum. I for one did interpret synthetic's comments as suggesting he was the administrator of that forum.

Please try and keep on topic....

[Dave#]

Originally posted by JamesUS
Only forum Administrators should post comments on behalf of their forum. I for one did interpret synthetic's comments as suggesting he was the administrator of that forum.

Please try and keep on topic....

Well said James - personally I wouldn't of been so diplomatic to our friend above

[HenryG2]

You should remove the discussion about downloading Blizzard games on your forums, Skuzzy, if you know it's wrong.

[kaos]

http://forums.somethingawful.com
http://www.genmay.com -- honorable mention -- only open 3 months!
http://www.hardforums.com

[Gary King]

Originally posted by kaos
http://forums.somethingawful.com
http://www.genmay.com -- honorable mention -- only open 3 months!
http://www.hardforums.com

http://forums.somethingawful.com --> Not open to guests, please post a screenshot (I just want to confirm :rolleyes: )

http://www.genmay.com --> 786,685 posts in total last time I looked

http://www.hardforums.com --> I believe this was posted once, if not several times.

:)

[SkuZZy]

http://www.rajahwwf.com/forum

... sitting at 996500 right now. Should hit 1 million tommorow!

[chrispadfield]

I have made a big update to the list, sorry it took so long.

I will not list forums where you have to register to view; I don't have time.

Hardforum has been listed for a few months; it really dosen't need two mentions despite its size.

Please don't post sites with < 1 million posts, it just wastes my time having to check them.

[Sandron]

http://d2nforum.gamigo.de/
Just hitted the 1 million mark :)

[zachb]

Fan Home now uses ezBoard, so you should take them off of the list.

[ChriX]

Originally posted by Blak n Wite
http://www.hardforums.com --> I believe this was posted once, if not several times.

:)

Thats because they are great, if they didnt cut the database every now and then to keep the size down I would say they would have at least 10 million posts :D

[nuno]

Originally posted by zachb
Fan Home now uses ezBoard, so you should take them off of the list.
I am shocked, incredibly shocked. I'm amazed. :eek: :(

[Gary King]

Originally posted by nuno
I am shocked, incredibly shocked. I'm amazed. :eek: :(

Yes same here :eek:

[zachb]

So was I when I saw it, they worked out some deal with another site, so I guess they just moved it all over there and adopted their system. :(

[MattR]

:(

[Gary King]

Originally posted by zachb
So was I when I saw it, they worked out some deal with another site, so I guess they just moved it all over there and adopted their system. :(

Yea I guess so, but I guess FanHome just had to move on, am I right Matt..? :confused:

[nuno]

FanHome.com - Where Sports Fans Connect (our SYBASE-backed vB Forums!)
You have to change your sig Matt.

[HenryG2]

Wow...

:(

Well, enjoy your Ez Board Matt. ;)

[SkuZZy]

Fanhome sold out? :(

[tamarian]

The DB Forums: http://www.dbforums.com/

Now at 1,621,899 posts

[Dave#]

Originally posted by tamarian
The DB Forums: http://www.dbforums.com/

Now at 1,621,899 posts

98% of that 1m are usenet posts - no dice

[Arkham]

Originally posted by Dave#
98% of that 1m are usenet posts - no dice

I think Usenet forums are acceptable if the purpose here is, as I understand, to demonstrate how scalable vB is with high post counts.

If we're talking about original communities specifically, it'd be different, but usually when the question of 1 mill+ vBs comes around it's to see if vB can handle the load. Besides, I like seeing how well integrated Usenet groups can be. ;)

[SkuZZy]

Found another one for you chris.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb

Pretty big too, 1.6 mil ;)

[Radon3k]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
Found another one for you chris.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb

Pretty big too, 1.6 mil ;)

Are they colorblind?

[zachb]

Ouch, no kidding. I couldn't stand to post there with those colors.

[Arkham]

Originally posted by zachb
Ouch, no kidding. I couldn't stand to post there with those colors.

It looks like an art student run over by a Mac truck before class.

[Gary King]

They should've at least modified their vBulletin images from the default ones eh? I bet their forums are linked from other websites.

[coldy]

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

[Radon3k]

Originally posted by coldy
http://www.gupshup.org (http://www.gupshup.org) That looks more like a phpBB with a little UBB than a vBulletin.

[Radon3k]

Originally posted by coldy
http://www.gupshup.org (http://www.gupshup.org) That looks more like a phpBB with a little UBB than a vBulletin.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by Radon3k
That looks more like a phpBB with a little UBB than a vBulletin. If you're suggesting that it's not a vBulletin - it is. Version 2.2.6, I believe. But I guess the reply should come from the owner instead.

[coldy]

Originally posted by Radon3k
That looks more like a phpBB with a little UBB than a vBulletin.

Its vB alright, with heavily simplified interface though.

[IDN]

http://www.gupistan.com/forums/admin/

see

[StarsStar]

Originally posted by IDN
http://www.gupistan.com/forums/admin/

see shut the hell up.

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by StarsStar
shut the hell up. Was there any purpose to this message?

[rylin]

Originally posted by chrispadfield
Was there any purpose to this message? I'm thinking the reply was meant to be "Yeah, I agree"..
After all, the keys are rather close on the keyboard - I make the same mistake all the time! :p

[Gary King]

It's also a quick way to gain posts; but also a quick way to get banned, if you don't be careful.

[Elbonian]

I hope that having a million posts on line isn't that big of a deal for vBulletin. Sometime in the next ten days I hope to push the "Go" button and convert over a UBB 6.x system to vBulletin. We have over 670K posts on-line now, and I'd hate to think that in another year or so we would be outgrowing vBulletin.

== Bill

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Elbonian
I hope that having a million posts on line isn't that big of a deal for vBulletin. Sometime in the next ten days I hope to push the "Go" button and convert over a UBB 6.x system to vBulletin. We have over 670K posts on-line now, and I'd hate to think that in another year or so we would be outgrowing vBulletin.

== Bill No, actually it is not a problem for the software.

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Elbonian
I hope that having a million posts on line isn't that big of a deal for vBulletin. Sometime in the next ten days I hope to push the "Go" button and convert over a UBB 6.x system to vBulletin. We have over 670K posts on-line now, and I'd hate to think that in another year or so we would be outgrowing vBulletin.

== Bill The number of posts dosen't make a huge amount of difference to performance in fact; the number of online users is what affects how hard vbulletin hits your server. Some of the people listed in this thread regularly have 800 people online, and I have seen some with up to 1,200 online.

[JungleMan]

http://www.amdforums.com/index.php?

Well over a million :)

[Knyteguy]

Originally posted by JungleMan
http://www.amdforums.com/index.php?

Well over a million :) http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/

[Sandron]

The forums of Infogrames http://forums.gtgames.com/forums/
Over 123.000 Users :eek: and over 2 mil posts.

Just realized that they are already listed but with a different url (http://www.ina-community.com/forums/)

[3DCheese]

INA has to be one of the biggest. Too bad they haven't been able to keep the hardware up to the task...
vBulletin Message
Due to server load limits we can only offer 2,000 connections to the forums at any given moment.


http://www.tournament.com/forums/ spun off from one of the INA forums a few years ago and we just hit the mil mark a month or two ago, but I'd hardly call that "huge" (or even all that large) by any standards, it just means we haven't pruned in a while :) I think of "large" in terms of how much email I'd get if the site went down :eek: (or, how many users are online all the time).

[P.Jackson]

Originally posted by zachb
http://www.overgrow.com/edge/ just hit the mark. wow busy boards http://forums.jolt.co.uk was busy enough for me :o

[P.Jackson]

Originally posted by Pául»J
wow busy boards http://forums.jolt.co.uk was busy enough for me :o hmm wonder which boards have the most registered users by the way what is the maximum user count for vbb? or is it unlimited?

[Gary King]

Originally posted by Pául»J
hmm wonder which boards have the most registered users by the way what is the maximum user count for vbb? or is it unlimited?

I guess it's unlimited, as long as the hardware can handle it.

[KrON]

We hit 1mill a while ago over @ http://www.pbnation.com

[Charmed4U]

Wow! There are a lot of forums with more then 1,000,000 posts on them ;)

[N9ne]

Originally posted by Charmed4U
Wow! There are a lot of forums with more then 1,000,000 posts on them ;) There are probably more we don't know about ;)

[cturcich]

www.genmay.net

100% spam :D

[nuno]

http://forums.maxima.org/

[KrON]

nuno, i don't get your sig, you like freebsd because all those servers are running outdated versions of apache? >:)

[nuno]

Originally posted by KrON
nuno, i don't get your sig, you like freebsd because all those servers are running outdated versions of apache? >:)
A: "Sites with longest running systems by average uptime in the last 7 days" ;)
Note top10, 8 are running FreeBSD, that means something don't you think? :o

[nuno]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=vbulletin.com :D

[KrON]

Could just mean fbsd people like to show off more ^_^

don't see too many linux users dressed up like penguins!

/me gets back on topic before he is scolded

[gicio]

thanks for the greate board links!!!



gicio

[Crimson Bandit]

Wow, i would have never guessed so many boards to have over 1 million posts.

Err, my two cents ... www.animenation.com (http://www.animenation.com) :)

[gicio]

do you know some programmer boards ??

(C++,Java,.NET(C#))


gicio

[Crimson Bandit]

Look on the first page and first post. A lot of those big boards are programming boards, it shouldn't take you too long to find one. :)

[gicio]

Hi,

I already know this boards that are posted..

but I looking for some new ones....



gicio

[Crimson Bandit]

Oh, not sure then. You can try this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1091) thread, it might be of some help.

[gicio]

Yeah!!
thanks...this thread helps me...




gicio

[SkuZZy]

forum.judgehype.com/

[MarkB]

You can now count Ultimate Metal (www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/ (http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/)) among those 1 million post forums as of about 10 minutes ago :D

[jediguy]

Just reached the magic 1,000,000 post mark:

http://forums.overclockers.com.au

:)

[Crimson Bandit]

Originally posted by jediguy
Just reached the magic 1,000,000 post mark:

http://forums.overclockers.com.au

:) Being logged in (or registered if you don't have an id) just to view the board was rather annoying.

[jediguy]

Originally posted by Crimson Bandit
Being logged in (or registered if you don't have an id) just to view the board was rather annoying. Perhaps, it's not my board.

[Sengir]

Hear (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=400768) my plight heh..

I didn't realize just how big their forums are...

[Radon3k]

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/

[nuno]

http://hotornot.whow.de/forum/index.php

[Crimson Bandit]

Wow, over 161,000 registered users. This is the most i have seen on a VB yet.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by Crimson Bandit
Wow, over 161,000 registered users. This is the most i have seen on a VB yet. http://www.flashkit.com/board/index.php has 396,370 members the last time I checked ;)

[nuno]

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

[nuno]

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

[wizade]

wow! there are a lot of really huge ones!!

[heretic]

Portent.net just hit 1 million :D

http://forums.portent.net/

[mvigod]

We are closing in on the 1 million mark with 600k now. I was about 200k closer but I prune out our classifieds often. Database is coming up on 3GB!

I found something pretty cool last week for those of you who have these big sites and lots of members like me. I just bought one for my site www.rcuniverse.com (http://www.rcuniverse.com). It is one of those toolbars like yahoo, google, nasdaq or ebay have available. I set it up so my members can go direct to any of my forum and search from the toolbar that installs right onto IE. While the very small sites with few members don't need this it is awesome for the medium to larger sites members.

It was a no brainer for me with 27,000 members. It was $99 and took maybe 10 minutes to build online right through the companies website. http://www.customtoolbar.com

Now I'm going to try and work with the developer to integrate some direct tie ins to VB which will be posted over at vb.org whenever I can get them done. Things like PM notice on the bar, integrated chat, streaming text ticker and some other good stuff.

[nuno]

Originally posted by mvigod
We are closing in on the 1 million mark with 600k now. I was about 200k closer but I prune out our classifieds often. Database is coming up on 3GB!

I found something pretty cool last week for those of you who have these big sites and lots of members like me. I just bought one for my site www.rcuniverse.com (http://www.rcuniverse.com). It is one of those toolbars like yahoo, google, nasdaq or ebay have available. I set it up so my members can go direct to any of my forum and search from the toolbar that installs right onto IE. While the very small sites with few members don't need this it is awesome for the medium to larger sites members.

It was a no brainer for me with 27,000 members. It was $99 and took maybe 10 minutes to build online right through the companies website. http://www.customtoolbar.com

Now I'm going to try and work with the developer to integrate some direct tie ins to VB which will be posted over at vb.org whenever I can get them done. Things like PM notice on the bar, integrated chat, streaming text ticker and some other good stuff.
I think there's already a hack over at vBulletin.org for this.
I may be wrong though.

[mvigod]

Originally posted by nuno
I think there's already a hack over at vBulletin.org for this.
I may be wrong though.

Nuno,

I don't think it is like this one. If you find it can you let me know though?

I looked hi and low for an IE toolbar. Only one besides this I found that worked was around $2500 and the developer never called me back! I tried a few others that were extremely hard to configure (you had to edit config text files) and just didn't work. This bar was easy to install via the web and is all web based to create it. The beauty of it is that us vbulletin guys can now run with the big boys with this cool custom toolbar without spending a few grand.

Better yet is the integrated tie ins to vbulletin which I will try to help code. If you want to download my toolbar just for a demo to see what it is click link below. You should be running IE 5.0 or higher. AOL browser may have issues as they don't want anybody taking their toolbar space!

http://www.customtoolbar.com/ctb/installtool.asp?us=119&id=75&ver=15

I got pretty excited by this considering the price is within the reach of us common folk so checked to see if VB integration was possible. Answer was yes. Things like a preference page so you can go to a web page and pick from all the available forums and only those will come up in the toolbar and in the structure as they appear on your own forum! While you can do this manually on the bar right now my hack idea is to automate it for my forum. Even without the automation the toolbar itself is still a member pleaser and saves some bandwidth as it cuts down some navigation steps.

marc

[nuno]

I think this is similar -> http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33590
Yours seems more appealing. :)

[nuno]

over 3 million posts :eek: -> http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/index.php

[Brian Briscoe]

Originally posted by nuno
over 3 million posts :eek: -> http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/index.php WoW :eek:

[tamarian]

Originally posted by nuno
over 3 million posts :eek: -> http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/index.php

What am I missing? Looks like a couple (or 4) thousand posts to me, did they prune?

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by tamarian
What am I missing? Looks like a couple (or 4) thousand posts to me, did they prune? Probably a lot of forums that aren't open to guests.

[Gary King]

Originally posted by Steve Machol
Probably a lot of forums that aren't open to guests. Yep; also, this site can also be accessed by using http://www.hole.com/

I believe that this is the site for the band called Hole.

[P.Jackson]

http://forums.jolt.co.uk :D

Members: 33,164, Threads: 113,054, Posts: 1,972,352

[nuno]

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

[tamarian]

It would very interesting if these 1 million+ forums are listed along with their hardware/software specs. :)

[dazmanultra]

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

Erm, what happened to rule #1? :greddy:

BAN

[Gary King]

Erm, what happened to rule #1? :greddy:

BAN
.....?

[Dominick]

Erm, what happened to rule #1? :greddy:

BAN
yup

[nuno]

http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/index.php

[nuno]

http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/index.php

[Chris Stewart]

Erm, what happened to rule #1? :greddy:

BAN

:rofl: :bigthumb:

<~~~~ CompiledMonkey

[phenom]

AVS forum, coming up on 2 million posts

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/

[Lumina]

3.4 millions posts on http://forums.jeuxonline.info/ :)

[fidothe]

http://forums.somethingawful.com AND THEY CHARGE $10 PER ACCOUNT, how that for a good way to run a forum? (Also 11,000+ member, thats a whole lot of dough)

[Gary King]

http://forums.somethingawful.com AND THEY CHARGE $10 PER ACCOUNT, how that for a good way to run a forum? (Also 11,000+ member, thats a whole lot of dough)
Forums are down. $10 for a board without good uptime? Or did I just visit at a bad time? :p

[fidothe]

Forums are down. $10 for a board without good uptime? Or did I just visit at a bad time? :p

its up about 80% of the time. They have really bad server issues.

[Sean123]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com - They just got over a million today ....
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/

[NickCat]

Forum: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/
Homepage: http://www.nasioc.com/

Stats as of 9:17 am EST 3/19/2003
Registered Members: 26,161
Total Threads: 315,957 | Total Posts: 3,335,547

We are the largest Subaru enthusiasts site in the world. We've been around since June 1999 and are now over 26K users (we dump all unconfirmed accounts after 10 days)

I don't post here that much, but we are just about to pass 3.4 million posts this month. With an average 150K posts per month.

-Nick

Here are the stats for the last 10 months:
June 2002 137984
July 2002 158979
August 2002 161433
September 2002 148566
October 2002 163488
November 2002 158875
December 2002 139691
January 2003 167113
February 2003 158455
March 2003 103235

[Chase]

Wow ...