List of Internet forums

This is a list of notable Internet forums, sorted by number of posts, both in English and in other languages. The list contains only forums for which an article exists, dedicated either wholly or at least partly to the forum.

English Internet forums

* For forums that do not have member counts the "Members" field contains only a hyphen.

Name	Main interest	Posts	Members	Software	Launch year
Gaia Online	Anime	1,851,700,721	22,160,813	phpBB	2003
4chan	Various	564,196,173	-	-	2003
RuneScape	Video Game	377,427,951	-	-	-
Something Awful	General	103,886,255	142,257	vBulletin	1999
Democratic Underground	US Democratic Party	48,043,233	152,183	-	2001
Digital Spy	Television and Media	37,020,829	354,755	vBulletin	1999
Whirlpool.net.au	Technology and Australia	33,211,831	482,799	-	2001
Two Plus Two	Poker	31,418,854	317,581	vBulletin	2002
Neogaf	Video Games and Various	25,601,248	74,431	vBulletin	2000
The Student Room	Students and young people	22,252,288	369,159	vBulletin	2001
Newgrounds	Flash	18,987,298	1,147,016	phpBB	1995
Ultimate Guitar	Music	19,999,762	1,487,911	vBulletin	1999
MoneySavingExpert.com Forums	Consumer advice	16,316,599	600,412	vBulletin	2003
PistonHeads	Cars	16,236,135	2,540,000	-	1998
Flyertalk	Travel	16,093,301	334,113	vBulletin	1998
XDA-Developers	Technology	12,244,630	3,810,114	vBulletin	2000
RedFlagDeals	Bargain/Coupon hunting	11,102,034	372,534	vBulletin	2000
Ubuntu Forums	Ubuntu (operating system)	9,604,396	1,195,472	vBulletin	2004
Neowin Forums	Technology	9,242,211	244,048	Invision Power Board	2000
Facepunch	Video Game	9,049,569	183,249	vBulletin	2004
MacRumors	Apple products	8,697,204	386,824	vBulletin	2000
Airliners.net	Aviation	8,351,802	134,124	-	1998
Stormfront	White nationalism	7,428,141	204,985	vBulletin	1995
Professional Pilots Rumour Network	Aviation	5,683,849	322,694	vBulletin	1996
Steampowered	Video Games	4,290,661	385,698	vBulletin	2000
GameDev.net	Game programming	4,258,403	160,628	-	1999
mozillaZine	Mozilla Foundation programs	3,842,701	340,690	phpBB	1998
LinuxQuestions.org	Linux	3,774,042	422,013	vBulletin	2000
Sporeum	Video games	3,688,332	154,829	Jforum	-
ProBoards	ProBoards Forum support	3,369,791	151,136	ProBoards	2000
TechArena.in	Technology	1,219,515	389,686	vBulletin	2003
Veggieboards	Vegetarianism	2,465,834	48,049	vBulletin	2000
Simple Machines Forum	Forum support	2,388,824	214,464	Simple Machines Forum	-
Joomla!	Joomla!	2,243,728	440,695	phpBB	2005
xkcd	xkcd, news	1,890,323	46,256	phpBB	2006
vBulletin Community Forum	vBulletin	1,812,037	236,293	vBulletin	-

Internet forums in other languages

Language	Name	Main interest	Posts	Members	Software	Launch year	Year of information
Indonesian	Kaskus	General	276,663,108	2,432,153	vBulletin
Japanese	2channel	General	Aprx. 25,000,000	-
French	fr:Doctissimo	Health	244,559,169	2,905,360	fr:MesDiscussions.net	2000	2012
French	fr:HardWare.fr	Technology	88,717,258	884,924	fr:MesDiscussions.net	1997	2012
French	Tomsguide.fr (was Infos du net.com) fr:Bestofmedia Group	Technology	4,876,117	1,279,417		2003 ?	2012
French	Tomshardware.fr (was presencePC.com) fr:Bestofmedia Group	Technology	3,547,020	1,279,417		2003 ?	2012
Swedish	Flashback Forum	General	22,184,794	406,536

See also

• Internet forum

External links

• Big Boards, a site ranking different boards by certain criteria