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The Biggest Forums on the Net

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Posted by: aqua

I stumbled across an interesting site that lists the biggest forums on the net. You can even sort by different categories such as Traffic and Posts

http://www.big-boards.com/

If you sort by the number of members Deviant Art an online art community has the most members - over 5 million members

If you sort by Alexa Rankings, there is even a John Kerry forum

http://www.web-life.org/banners/featured.gif


Posted by: forwardone

Just taken a look and all I can say is- W O W!!

Geoff


Posted by: jaukki

I visited the number one forum (Gaia Online) just for curiosity few weeks ago as i found the owner looking for ways to reduce the server load. The forum is using phpbb and receives over 50k posts per day according to the owner...

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Who is Online - In total there are 13531 users online :: 10218 Registered, 660 Hidden and 2653 Guests

Gaia has 190595085 articles posted, with 128606420 in storage
We have 1115396 registered users
Most users ever online was 19359 on Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:32 pm



Posted by: edward

I co-own 2 sites at Big-Boards.

http://www.filesharingtalk.com
http://www.thetrolls.com

Ed


Posted by: wendy99

How did you acquire so many members?

Wendy


Posted by: edward

Well I got involved with both stes after many of the members were already there. Filesharingtalk was created as the official forum ofr kazaa light, thus attracting thousands of new members a month back when it was in its prime.


Posted by: wendy99

How many boards are you involved with?


Posted by: edward

Well Brian and I co-own quite a few forums. The good thing about forums are that they usually run themselves for the most part.

http://www.filesharingtalk.com
http://www.thetrolls.com
http://www.4-um.com
http://www.gptforum.com - We each own 1/3 witha partner Bill


Starting forums can be difficult, especually if the market is already oversaturated.

Ed


Posted by: forwardone

A couple of very interesting ones there, Ed!

Geoff


Posted by: wendy

cool,
i cant image


Posted by: forwardone

Considering the fact that a relatively small proportion of Internet users are into Hyip`s I think that the forums associated with these types of programs get a lot of traffic.

Nowhere near Google and Microsoft of course, but just as a one-off I thought I`d check the very latest Alexa Rankings for some of the top forums and some of Web Life`s Network sites.

Purely in alphabetical order (and I don`t vouch for the accuracy of these figures nor can I explain their full meaning, apart from the lower the figure the better, I just take them as a rough indicator).

Buycheap traffic 344,401 (part of WL)
Goldentalk 377,151
Gold Horizons 251,185
Goldrater 154,794
HYIPSafelist 998,814 (part of WL)
HYIPSearch 959,851 (part of WL)
PrivateHYIPS 1,037,361
Web Life 176,008
TalkGold 33,692

One thing I did notice and that is most of the above sites have seen an increase in traffic recently.

Geoff



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