List of Internet forums
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.
Internet forums - English language
Notable forums with over one million posts, listed in rank order.[a]
| Name | Posts | Members | Category | Launch year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Something Awful | 171,363,416 | 192,130 | Comedy, Satire | 1999 |
| BodyBuilding.com | 122,889,531 | 10,638,613 | BodyBuilding | 1999 |
| NeoGAF | 84,473,030 | 154,508 | Video games, General | 1999 |
| PbNation | 77,728,034 | 686,753 | Paintball | 2001 |
| Digital Spy | 71,007,689 | 550,113 | Media | 1999 |
| XDA-Developers | 57,606,022 | 6,490,314 | Mobile devices | 2002 |
| Sherdog | 55,864,444 | 289,891 | Mixed martial arts | 1997 |
| The Student Room | 51,593,398 | 1,747,150 | Education | 1997 |
| Literotica | 49,694,545 | 1,733,465 | Erotic literature | 1998 |
| Whirlpool.net.au | 47,019,962 | 688,678 | Technology | 2001 |
| Slickdeals | 41,864,907 | 2,920,884 | Consumer advice | 1999 |
| TexAgs | 38,633,936 | Texas A&M University | 1998 | |
| MoneySavingExpert | 38,439,886 | 1,423,648 | Investment | 2003 |
| Facepunch | 28,869,091 | 183,249 | Video games, General | 2004 |
| Ultimate Guitar | 26,386,910 | 9,298,617 | Music | 1999 |
| Flyertalk | 24,448,156 | 596,986 | Travel | 1998 |
| NationStates | 20,940,754 | 681,728 | Play-by-post, General, Politics | 2008 |
| MacRumors | 20,556,533 | 963,873 | Apple products | 2000 |
| RedFlagDeals | 19,214,399 | 730,046 | Bargain, Couponing | 2000 |
| College Confidential | 17,761,526 | Higher education | 2001 | |
| urban75 | 13,894,070 | 49,097 | Politics, General | 1996 |
| Ubuntu Forums | 12,655,010 | 1,975,488 | Ubuntu | 2004 |
| Stormfront | 11,271,444 | 300,129 | White nationalism | 1995 |
| GTPlanet | 10,440,499 | 250,867 | Video games, Automobiles | 2001 |
| Clutchfans | 9,771,273 | 51,657 | Houston Rockets | 1996 |
| Airliners.net[citation needed] | 9,392,076 | 169,702 | Aviation | 1998 |
| Prof. Pilots Rumour Network | 7,813,597 | 411,521 | Aviation | 1996 |
| Veggieboards | 6,618,341 | 67,134 | Vegetarianism | 2000 |
| Wrong Planet | 6,020,489 | Autism, Asperger syndrome | 2004 | |
| LinuxQuestions.org | 5,340,813 | 539,262 | Linux | 2000 |
| HealthBoards | 4,894,945 | 1,095,036 | Health | 1998 |
| NamePros[4][5][6] | 4,882,611 | 975,708 | Domaining | 2003 |
| mozillaZine | 4,690,468 | 412,513 | Mozilla Foundation programs | 1998 |
| SkyscraperPage.com | 4,672,337 | 49,782 | Architecture, Photography | 2002 |
| GameDev.net[citation needed] | 4,626,424 | 221,489 | Game development | 1999 |
| Democratic Underground | 4,522,689 | 152,183 | US democratic party | 2001 |
| BPDFamily.com[7] | 2,946,601 | 71,990 | Borderline personality disorder | 1998 |
| RxPG[citation needed] | 2,753,185 | 611,049 | Higher education | 2003 |
| DoItYourself.com | 2,194,305 | 308,385] | Do it yourself | 1995 |
- ^ Many post counts are outdated which do not reflect current post metrics and are provided as general reference only. Please update them accordingly
See also
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}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(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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