What do you consider a large forum?

My best forum is nearing 3,000 members and 100,000 posts, and I think I'm doing pretty well. I'm sure many people would consider that peanuts though; looking at Big Boards you need at least 500,000 posts to be eligible to join. To me that seems absolutely massive. At what point do you consider a forum "big"? Does it depend on the niche?

 

Honestly, I don't know what to consider a large forum.

I think that having fresh content, original posts, constant flow of users, nice traffic and such make up a large forum.

Well known, etc.

 

I think it also depends on the "niche". I don't think there's a set standard for the size of a forum (i.e. a figure that is considered to be large).

 

500,000 posts is indeed the Big-Boards.com requirement. Whenever someone refers to a forum as a "big-board", that's usually what they mean. However, I think 100,000 posts is when you can consider your forum to be fairly large. This is a personal goal I have for AA.


That's aside from activity, members, posts per day, the forum's age, etc. I was only replying in terms of what a large forum post count is.

 

My personal standard

Small - 100,000 post or less
Medium - 100,001 - 999,999 post
Large or Big Board Status - 1,000,000 post or more

 

Anything that has more members than my site :lol:

 

For me a offtopic-forum is less worthy than a niche-targeted forum. I reckon 500.000 is a nice mile for offtopic-forums, but the line for niche-targeted forums lies lower for me. About 100.000 posts.

 

I agree. You need 100k posts just to be considered a serious forum. I would categorize 1 million posts as "large". My own site will be at 1 million posts in about 2 months. I get about 5000 posts per day right now and still growing strong.

I finally have outpaced Kevin's survivalistboards.com. hehe...

Alexa 10k here I come!

 

Only because my site map crashed a few months ago. I got it fixed about 8 weeks ago. During the time the sitemap was not being submitted, I had 300,000 pages delisted from googel. And my growth went from 12% to 3% every 30 days.

And there are no big disasters right now.

Just wait until the next outbreak of the swine flu, I'll be passing everyone up.



Congratulations on your forums success. It feels good when you have a project that takes off and becomes a success.

 

:lmao:

 

Thats it, laugh it up. You should have seen my google analytics when the swine flue stuff was going on back in May.

In 3 days I had around 175 people register on my forum.

 

I can imagine the surge of activity that you must have received, Kevin. Wowza.

 

Oh I believe it, Kev. If Swine Flu threatened me, I'd be joining any "survivalist forum" I could find. :lol:

 

Which site, Labrocca?

I know that's right.

Or a medical/health board of some sort, at least.

 

Awesome! I can now consider my forum medium sized instead of small We're moving on up...