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World’s largest web forums

Message boards, or forums, have been used on the Internet since 1969 – even before the advent of the first web browser, the WorldWideWeb, in 1990 – are very popular among web users looking for extra help or information or simply wanting to interact with fellow surfers. The most popular forums get some two million posts per day, therefor it is important to keep Internet etiquette, or netiquette, in mind.

Rank Forum Style Members Posts
1 Gaia Online Anime roleplaying 17336196 1540263653
2 IMobile (Chinese) Mobile phones 9591781 31277230
3 Zenhex General discussion 8556729 2187134
4 Deviant Art Art 5068184 5390933
5 Game Show Network Old TV shows 4751262 692839
6 Bioware forums Neverwinter Nights game 4425581 8194747
7 MySpace Social networking 4150200 912500
8 IMDB Movies 4111600 13087050
9 Sound Click Music 3768505 558562
10 Gamefaqs Games 3432658 28848500

Date 2009, ranked by member numbers

For latest numbers, see Big Boards


02/05/2010 by txtface under lists.
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  • haterofgaiafags
    According to Wikipedia 4chan receives an average of 100-200,000 posts. A day. Someone edit the list and remove GayOnline please.
  • meme
    Message boards, or forums, have been used on the web since 1969

    are you serious who wrote that rubbish?
    there was no web in 1969 ,are the rest of the so called facts on this site as credable as this?
  • "forums... used on the web" is indeed incorrect because the "Web" (as we know it now, the public part of the Internet) was introduced by Tim Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau on December, 25 1990. That sentence is now edited. But the Internet was in use since 1969 and did include a format that reflected forums or usenets or however one wants to refer to an Internet discussion board. Even the French Minitel system, started in 1981 and officially launched in 1984, featured forums.
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