The largest board you've ever come across...
 

Mine would be Gaiaonline.com

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Most users ever online was 24685 on Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:28 pm

The stats above is

:eek:

Holy crap man! Here is an example of a thread, there are several like this too :surprised:
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<a href="http://www.bigboards.com" target="_blank">www.bigboards.com</a>

How are the stats illogical, exactly?

gaiaonline is the largest messageboard on the web. No question.

Could it be you meant http://www.big-boards.com ;)

It also needs more than 50 servers.

I was wondering how many they were running.

yeah they run on between 40-50 servers and they are constantly adding more

I wonder how much they have to spend every month. Clustering 50 servers... and also managing them.

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heh

btw i cant belive that they using phpbb and it didnt crased !!!

btw i love their site map

They are definitely the largest and most popular. :) They must have a rich benefactor.

and lots of donators. :) (is one)

they are only using code which could be considered losely based apon phpbb. it is not, by far, stock code.

It is a heavly hacked copy of phpbb, the admin has done many preformance tweaks to the phpbb source code and is also running a large number of servers behind it :)

forums that big is hard to actually start posting since their are way too many replies since I like reading almost every post to seee what everyone has to say something something.

they just recently redid the entire private messaging system, so basically you can see that phpBB is just the foundation(even if that) of Gaia Online.

in reply to J.C. they make alot of the money through advertising, who would not want to advertise on a site with over 15,000 people looking at the site at one moment in time. i wonder how much it is to advertise....

well actually theirs not many advertising ads which im really surprised on a site that big.

But i use to know about some porn forum which only had about 5 forums but it was active all the time but I heard advertisers would pay loads of money to people to advertise their company or website just in their signatures.