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Forums bigger than MacNN?

Forums bigger than MacNN? Games 50 posts Feb 6, 2003 — Dec 5, 2004

#1 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 13:20

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

#2 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 13:22

No Mac forum is bigger than this one AFAIK.

#3 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 13:23

stile's got a fairly big one... (ohhh matron!)

sorry, even their 'access denied' page is obscene

#4 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:00

[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)

#5 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:15

www.vwvortex.com

83,300 members

573,600 threads

5.3 million posts

Loads of actions.

#6 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:18

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.

#7 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:21

MSJ

#8 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:28

Ars Open Forum is bigger than this forum.

VW Vortex (already mentioned) is huge.

I think [H] is about the same size as this board.

#9 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:29

off-topic.net is more active than this

#10 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 14:36

Quote:

Originally posted by sealobo:
www.vwvortex.com

83,300 members

573,600 threads

5.3 million posts

Loads of actions.

I'm one of the 83,300 Members Yes that forum is big.

#11 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 16:25

#12 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 16:41

It isn't as big as AOL, but IGN's forums used to be huge (I don't know every since they started that insider crap). The boards over at Gaming Age are respectably big. The GameFAQs Baords are always lively, too.

BG

#13 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 17:00

#14 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 17:10

Quote:

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
SomethingAwful is pretty big:

Ey Chris.

#15 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 17:23

somthing about my sig but i can't remember

#16 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 17:35

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.

#17 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 19:10

Quote:

Originally posted by G4ME:
somthing about my sig but i can't remember

#18 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 20:16

Quote:

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
SomethingAwful is pretty big:

Another goon!

#19 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 20:20

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

Quote:

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*

#21 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 21:05

So MacNN is the biggest Mac one right?

-Owl

#22 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 21:11

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.

#23 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 21:16

omgwtfbbq

#24 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 21:18

[edit: nevermind]

#25 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 22:04

If you include meta-forums, ezboard claims over 10 million, including playing host to the PlanetGameCube forums.

BG

#26 Thu, 6 Feb 2003 - 22:09

those big boards don't use vBulletin do they

or is ours unusually unstable during heavy activity?

#27 Fri, 7 Feb 2003 - 02:14

are there any huge forums about stuff most of us would be remotely interested in? i mean vw?

#28 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 15:58

So how many registered members, posts, topics, etc are there on Macnn? Whats the rate of post count per minute/hour?

#29 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:13

I hear BBQ is king...

#30 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 - 16:16

www.big-boards.com

they made a site out of listing large forums..
go ahead and look around there.