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An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.^[1]

General

Forums are one of the reasons why the Internet is so large. Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet but on a much larger scale and in more specialized ways.^[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies.

Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social networks, video sharing and virtual worlds.^[3]

Internet forums differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived.
Internet forums differ from question and answer boards which rank answers to questions.
Internet forums differ from social networking services which are based on public profiles, a list of users with whom to share connections, and view and cross the connections within the system.

Notable Internet forums

Notable English language forums with over one million posts, listed in rank order.^[a]

Name	Posts	Members	Category	Launch year	STATS updated
Something Awful	171,363,416	192,130	Comedy, Satire	1999	05-28-15
BodyBuilding.com	122,889,531	10,638,613	BodyBuilding	1999	05-28-15
NeoGAF	84,473,030	154,508	Video games, General	1999	05-28-15
PbNation	77,728,034	686,753	Paintball	2001	05-28-15
Digital Spy	71,007,689	550,113	Media	1999	05-28-15
XDA-Developers	57,606,022	6,490,314	Mobile devices	2002	05-28-15
Sherdog	55,864,444	289,891	Mixed martial arts	1997	05-28-15
The Student Room	51,593,398	1,747,150	Education	1997	05-28-15
Literotica	49,694,545	1,733,465	Erotic literature	1998	05-28-15
Whirlpool.net.au	47,019,962	688,678	Technology	2001	05-28-15
Slickdeals	41,864,907	2,920,884	Consumer advice	1999	05-28-15
TexAgs	38,633,936		Texas A&M University	1998	05-28-15
MoneySavingExpert	38,439,886	1,423,648	Investment	2003	05-28-15
Facepunch	28,869,091	183,249	Video games, General	2004	05-29-15
Ultimate Guitar	26,386,910	9,298,617	Music	1999	05-28-15
Flyertalk	24,448,156	596,986	Travel	1998	05-28-15
NationStates	20,940,754	681,728	Play-by-post, General, Politics	2008	05-28-15
MacRumors	20,556,533	963,873	Apple products	2000	05-28-15
RedFlagDeals	19,214,399	730,046	Bargain, Couponing	2000	05-28-15
College Confidential	17,761,526		Higher education	2001	05-28-15
urban75	13,894,070	49,097	Politics, General	1996	05-28-15
Ubuntu Forums	12,655,010	1,975,488	Ubuntu	2004	05-28-15
Stormfront	11,271,444	300,129	White nationalism	1995	05-28-15
GTPlanet	10,440,499	250,867	Video games, Automobiles	2001	05-28-15
Clutchfans	9,771,273	51,657	Houston Rockets	1996	05-28-15
Airliners.net^{[citation needed]}	9,392,076	169,702	Aviation	1998	05-28-15
Prof. Pilots Rumour Network	7,813,597	411,521	Aviation	1996	05-28-15
Veggieboards	6,618,341	67,134	Vegetarianism	2000	05-28-15
Wrong Planet	6,020,489		Autism, Asperger syndrome	2004	05-28-15
LinuxQuestions.org	5,340,813	539,262	Linux	2000	05-28-15
HealthBoards	4,894,945	1,095,036	Health	1998	05-28-15
NamePros^[4]^[5]^[6]	4,882,611	975,708	Domaining	2003	05-28-15
mozillaZine	4,690,468	412,513	Mozilla Foundation programs	1998	05-28-15
SkyscraperPage.com	4,672,337	49,782	Architecture, Photography	2002	05-28-15
GameDev.net^{[citation needed]}	4,626,424	221,489	Game development	1999	05-28-15
Democratic Underground	4,522,689	152,183	US democratic party	2001	05-28-15
BPDFamily.com^[7]	2,946,601	71,990	Borderline personality disorder	1998	05-28-15
RxPG^{[citation needed]}	2,753,185	611,049	Higher education	2003	05-28-15
DoItYourself.com	2,194,305	308,385	Do it yourself	1995	05-28-15

^ Post counts are provided as a general reference only. Editors will update periodically.

References

^ "vBulletin Community Forum - FAQ: What is a bulletin board?". vBulletin.com. Retrieved 2008-09-01. A bulletin board is an online discussion site. It is sometimes also called a 'board' or 'forum'. It may contain several categories, consisting of sub-forums, threads and individual posts.
^ Lee, Joel. "How We Talk Online: A History of Online Forums". MakeUseuOf.com. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
^ "Measuring the Degree of Corporate Social Media Use". International Journal of Market Research. 57 (2): 257–275. March 2015. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
^ "Forum Statistics". NamePros. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
^ "Do You Like the New NamePros and DNForum?". Domaining Tips. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
^ Simon (2008-07-01). "Exclusive interview with Ron James from NamePros". Domainer Income. Retrieved 2014-08-28.
^ "Mission, Members". BPDfamily. Retrieved July 7, 2014.

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 == See also ==
+*[[List of chat websites]]
+*[[Imageboard| List of imageboards]]
 *[[List of social networking websites]]
+*[[Comparison of Q&A sites| List of question and answer sites]]
-*[[Lists of websites]]
-*[[Question and answer site]]
 ==References==

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Notable Internet forums

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