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#1 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 13:20 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #1
I got into a Mac vs. PC argument today and for some reason the guy wanted to know what kind of "puny" forums the stupid Macs had so I showed him MacNN and it's enormous amount of posts. He was silented

Just wondering, are there forums that are bigger than MacNN? Usenet doesn't count. They don't have to be about PCs.

-Steve
#3 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 13:23 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #3
stile's got a fairly big one... (ohhh matron!)

sorry, even their 'access denied' page is obscene
#4 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:00 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #4
[H]ard|Forum: Registered Members: 17,768 | 178,030 threads in total | 1,739,086 posts in total

and this is after GenMay got cut out of it( it had 100k threads by it self the day before they were forced to cut it)
#6 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:18 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #6
SomethingAwful is pretty big:
Quote:
There are currently 1108 forum members and 33 wanna-be members on the boards.
The largest amount of SA Goons online at once was 1982 on 09-05. Wow! There are 10,563 registered members.
They have made 40,368 threads and 863,369 total posts.
#16 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 17:35 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #16
IMHO, size doesn't matter. Quality of discussion is paramount for me. That quality goes down every time I see another "iDVD and FireWire DVD-R" or "EyeTV Vs. Formac Studio" topic started.

My favorite spot doesn't report member counts, DealMac. Next is MacNN, then AppleInsider, then Apple's Discussions site.
#19 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 20:20 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #19
Anandtech is kinda big. Around 100K registered users. They've written a couple articles about their forum and web servers. Pretty interesting. I gotta say, I can only remember their forums going down once since the move from ubb a few years ago.

There used to be a forum called Delphi that was huge. It was more of a meta forum though. Their interface was so unbelieveable bad though. I guess the discussion groups on lycos and yahoo, etc. Don't count either.
#20 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 20:46 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #20
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Originally posted by daimoni:
And just for the record... 'bigger' doesn't mean 'better'.

I'd rather have a smaller group (of intelligent people) to communicate with.

Know any?
*cough*
#22 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 21:11 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #22
MacNN is very small compared to lots of forums. I know www.tournament.com has singular forums which have more posts than the whole of macnn, and 1 post in that forum every 30 seconds. For the whole website, probably 1 post every 4 seconds.
#28 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 15:58 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #28
So how many registered members, posts, topics, etc are there on Macnn? Whats the rate of post count per minute/hour?
#31 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:18 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #31
I'd like to see a way to look through a list of all registered MacNN users and be able so sort by join date, post count... etc, like I can do at MacAddict's forums.
#33 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:29 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #33
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Originally posted by gorickey:
Wait a internet minute here...are you saying other forums live other then MacNN?

Gibberish.
you're right, for once. that was gibberish.
#34 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:29 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #34
MacNN is #39 on BigBoards, behind (possibly most notably) Neowin.net, a Windows-oriented site.


The funny thing about Neowin is that in their icon/wallpaper/theme forums, the majority of the ideas are trying to mimic OS X in one way or another.



edit: that's #39 in the Computer-related section
#35 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:30 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #35
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Originally posted by philzilla:
you're right, for once. that was gibberish.


2 wrongs make a right. Right?
#36 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:59 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #36
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Originally posted by OwlBoy:
So MacNN is the biggest Mac one right?

-Owl


You could say that MacNN is the Walmart of all Mac forums.
#37 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 17:08 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #37
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Originally posted by The Godfather:
You could say that MacNN is the Walmart of all Mac forums.


Are you saying we all screw our sisters?
#38 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 17:16 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #38
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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Are you saying we all screw our sisters?


...or are willing to tackle our fellow MacNN forum members and inflict pain for a $29 APEX DVD player?
#39 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 18:21 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #39
Quote:
Originally posted by gorickey:
...or are willing to tackle our fellow MacNN forum members and inflict pain for a $29 APEX DVD player?


WITH PLEASURE!





I love that image. *adds one more just for the hell of it*
#40 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 18:56 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #40
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Originally posted by macintologist:
So how many registered members, posts, topics, etc are there on Macnn? Whats the rate of post count per minute/hour?


There are 45654 registered members. Of course, about 50 of those are old Ca$h aliases from way back when .

As for post and thread counts, you can add those up yourself from the front page.

As for the posting rate, I honestly have no idea.

tooki
#41 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 19:43 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #41
Man some of those forums have a lot of junk... how does someone actually keep up? I find arstechnica being too huge... each section is its own world.
#43 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 21:00 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #43
Neowin, although they USED TO BE Window-oriented, has tilted ever-so-slightly towards the Mac a bit. It's small, but growing.

Mike
#44 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 21:08 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #44
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Originally posted by tooki:

As for post and thread counts, you can add those up yourself from the front page.


Looks like about 1.785 million posts or so as of right now. Not too shabby
#46 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 - 09:14 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #46
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Originally posted by OH-N'omac:
How can there be a thread about huge forums, but no mention of slashdot?

700,000+ registered users
50 million pages served per month.


I don't think Slashdot quite qualifies as a forum. You can comment on posted stories but there are no forums like this one there (thankfully).
#48 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 - 18:20 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #48
Quote:
Originally posted by gorickey:
...or are willing to tackle our fellow MacNN forum members and inflict pain for a $29 APEX DVD player?


Pretty much, yeah.
#49 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 - 21:07 Forums bigger than MacNN? — #49
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Originally posted by Sealobo:
www.vwvortex.com

83,300 members

573,600 threads

5.3 million posts

Loads of actions.


Here's an update on the vwvortex site:

140022 users
1234469 threads
12267318 posts



Still growing...

Vortex kicks ass. (See sig)

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