[cellarius]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

1 among ....???

Some days before last Christmas I had some free time and I decided to check how many of my clients sites, (for sales done at 2007-2008) are still active. So:

~ 70% were dead domains. No websites at all.
~ 15% were using different forum software
~ 5% were using Wordpress instead of vB (or any forum)
And only about 10% were still using vBulleting with almost a share of 50%-50% vB3 and vB4.

Then I did another test. This is a test that anybody can do. Try in some popular mods here and start clicking on website links in the first posts (means posts about 4-5 years ago). You can find the links in posts like "I installed it but I'v some errors in my site ....mydomain.com"... You'll get the statistics very soon.

This hardly is very telling. There always has been a rather high fluctuation on forums, and only a rather small percentage actually made (and make) it over the first, say, five years, or develop a large user base.