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 or the World Wide Web in 1990.
Forums are popular among web users looking for extra help or information or simply wanting to interact with fellow surfers.
The most popular forums get some millions of posts per day.
| Forum / Style | Members | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Gaia Online: Anime roleplaying | 17,336,196 | 1,540,263,653 |
| 2. IMobile (Chinese): Mobile phones | 9,591,781 | 31,277,230 |
| 3. Zenhex: General discussion | 8,556,729 | 2,187,134 |
| 4. Deviant Art: Art | 5,068,184 | 5,390,933 |
| 5. Game Show Network: Old TV shows | 4,751,262 | 692,839 |
| 6. Bioware forums: Neverwinter game | 4,425,581 | 819,4747 |
| 7. MySpace: Social networking | 4,150,200 | 912,500 |
| 8. IMDB: Movies | 4,111,600 | 13,087,050 |
| 9. Sound Click: Music | 3,768,505 | 558,562 |
| 10. Gamefaqs: Games | 3,432,658 | 28,848,500 |
Date 2009, ranked by number of members.
By 2017, many of those forums slipped from the Top 10 list but Gaia Online remained as one of the largest forums in the world, with more than 26 million members and more than 2 billion posts.
The largest forums in 2017 were ConceptArt, Gaia Online and 4Chan.
For latest numbers, see Big Boards