http://www.big-boards.com/

I wanted to submit the somb to this site but no board with less than 500,000 posts is elligable to make the list. We're not even to 100,000 yet. The old board might have had enough posts, but it's too late for that, and it'll be at least a year before we get up to that many again.

There are over 1,700 boards listed on the site that do have that many. Here are the top 20.

1 - Gaia Online
Anime roleplaying community 581,880,306
2 - IGNBoards
General video gaming message boards 129,063,234
3 - FaceTheJury
Real life picture rating forums 124,311,793
4 - Vault Network boards
Role playing games discussion boards 106,164,917
5 - Nexopia
Picture rating, sex and relationships forums 59,810,340
6 - Offtopic.com
General discussion forums 53,561,995
7 - Something Awful
General discussion forums 34,400,669
8 - Hardware.fr
Computer hardware forums (in french) 31,628,310
9 - Doctissimo.fr
French medical help and health forums 30,825,522
10 - Gamefaqs
Video games message boards 28,848,500
11 - VW vortex forums
Volkswagen and related car brands discussion boards 26,461,568
12 - Fok.nl
General discussion bulletin board (in dutch) 25,502,016
13 - Christian Forums
Christian forum community 24,181,339
14 - Partyflock
General Discussion forum focussed on parties (in dutch) 22,233,142
15 - Theforce.net
Star Wars fans message boards 20,473,661
16 - Honda tech
Honda cars enthusiasts forums 19,887,815
17 - PBNation
Paintball related message boards 19,468,765
18 - Gathering of Tweakers
Dutch computer hardware and software forum 17,730,072
19 - AnandTech
Computer hardware message boards 17,643,033
20 - Literotica
Adult stories and erotic literature message boards 16,729,799

Hipinion is #575 with 1,698,241 posts.
The Radiohead board is #623 with 1,573,479 posts.

I like to think we incorporate a little bit from all of the above. Plus music and such.

Yet to see anything posted here in Dutch, though.

I dunno, some funky shit went down in that secret forum on the last board. I'm sure there was something, at least sort of kind of, Dutch going on in that little sewer of wonder.

Next time the religious fundimentalists claim that porn runs the internet, there is some hard data to show them.

Eh, I can't stand rediculously huge forums. You never get to know anybody and holding a good conversation is usually pointless.

I read the GameFAQs boards from time to time, but only when I'm looking for something. Otherwise, there's way too much idiocy for my tastes.

That's mostly why I've never taken a crack at establishing myself in the ILXor world. (Ranked #165)

dude, i am surprised Fark didn't make that list. i was always under the impression that place was a fucking huge madhouse that loves their tub girl discussions getting banned.

those boards have never seen FILM SCHOOL live at Schuba's while drunk as hell... fuck 'em.

The fact on how fucking nerdy number one is and that it quadruples the second closest proves that nerds still run this shit and boards like SOMB which is mainly supported by beer belly toting twenty and thirty somethings are still an anomaly.

By the way, I'm awesomeOanimefan24 on there, who are who?

I'm Wolfwoodfan86. but my troll account is SSJVASH20099

Ok, just checked out a few of those, and how does face the jury have so many posts? The board has like no point. The same can be said for here, but at least their is the hint of music discussions and people for the most part use complete sentences.

Acht en tachtig prachtige grachten.

Hottentotten tenten tentoonstellingen.

Zes en zestig sinaas appel schillen.

I still have no idea what Fark is.

If this is their forum, it doesn't look too impressive. Unless I'm missing something.

wtf is gaia roleplaying

I don't know why they call it that. It seems like a general message board to me, just with different sub-boards for different topics. I think that the more posts you have, the more clothes, accessories, and other junk you can "buy" for the chibi-ish anime character that you have for an avatar. That seems to be the appeal of it and why so many people get addicted to it. It's really wierd. There's some kind of RPG that may or may not be involved with it too. I'm not sure.

Here's their music forum. It's not as bad as I expected. Not unlike the SOMB, but with fewer Flaming Lips topics.

all i know about this Fark is that my one friend is hugely into it and gets alot of news and shit off of it. ive looked at it before and it pretty much makes little to no sense to me.

All because...I'm a fishbowl man...fishbowl man...fishbowl man.

where else do you guys post?
I'm at hipinion, atease and some gaming forums (teamxbox)

No SternFanNetwork? I'm shocked.

SternFanNetwork is #460 with 2,012,108 posts.

Een welk heet kuiken

So now, the biggest message board on the internet is one that's dedicated to these fish?

Only has a fraction of the members of any other board in the top 25.

no pun intended though eh?


dude, you must have smoked some bad granola.

Speak for yourself.

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Surprised Sherdog didn't make the list. It's full of all the idiot teenagers in the world. Well, some of them.

Not surprised an Xtian thing made it. Biggest cult going.

We should turn this thread into a "post as often as you can thread" to boost our numbers.

Removing flood control for this thread would help.

you just want a cute name under your avatar.

It's true.

I'm signed up at a number of band-related boards, plus I'm on the Jelly-L mailing list (they refuse to move to a board, unforunately), as well as some text sim computer game-related boards. SOMB is my second most-posted at board. The main board I post at I've been a member since 2000 and have around 21-22,000 posts. Insane.

The only other board that I occasionally post on is a noise board called I Hate Music. Only about six threads in the music forum get updated per day, though. Usually one in the film forum, maybe three in the everything forum, etc. Small, quiet board.

unlike your sex, which is loud, shakes your mother's fine china, and is engorged with blood. least that's the word on the street anyway.



edit: man, i should have went to bed at some point last night.

games like this?

I've spent about three or four hours over the last month trying to play this at work but I can't figure out what's going on.

That link just looks like the list of messageboards, or am I missing something?

The games I'm talking about are like this football game, or this baseball game, or these soccer/hockey/baseball games. Basically, sports games (mainly, although there are some non-sports games in the same vein) that have very little, if any, graphics, and are based as much on the business of the sports and realism from a front office perspective as the Madden-type games are based on the "arcade" elements of most video games.

Tiki Central, BaliHiJinks, occasionally SciFi Forums.

I post at Xtratime, which is #173 on that list. Didn't figure it was quite that far up.

Only roughly 65,000 posts to go before SOMB qualifies.

Lets get on this, people.

And I barely even post HERE, so I certainly don't do it anywhere else.

interesting that there are no chans on this list at all

Relax, Yancy will get us there in a month or so

shimmy, are you named something else on hpn

the "off topic forums" sort of weird me out because most of the rest of these ive heard of even if i'm not interested in whatever they discuss, which is kind of depressing. you can't even read them if you're not registered, i bet i'm about to get access to the biggest fucking kiddie porn torrent tracker

I post on LUElinks under "undercooked sausage" though i doubt any of you are on there.

a nice place to retire?

Ha, yeah. Most of the people on there are completely alienated with any forms of "popular music." Their tastes are so impenetrably obscure, that there was a thread a while back about "indie rock" and it had all these totally insane dudes who own every Merzbow album and worship electroacoustic improvisation dudes like Keith Rowe like they're fuckin' Neil Young or something being like, "I've been really enjoying Grizzly Bear and Sufjan Stevens as of late." No shit.

That's so indie.

Ha, I don't know, I just think it's sort of amusing that here are these dudes digging on the harshest, most out-there free jazz and doom metal and the most un-music music available just being like, "Oh, yeah, really enjoying this Illinois album as of late! This 'indie rock' thing ain't so bad!" Sort of awesome.

There's a website called MooreWatch, which basically calls Michael Moore a big fat liar. Apparently, it's talked about in his new film. In 2004-05, I posted there about 100 times with news about Mandy Moore. (i.e. "This site is all about Mandy Moore... has anyone seen "Saved" yet? I think Mandy will be nominated for an Oscar!")

I got thrown out.

I hope your stand up material is better than that