When is a forum considered large?

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by cpvr, Nov 28, 2009.

  1. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

    How many posts/threads/members do you think a forum needs to be considered large?

    I think 20,000 members, 500,000 posts and about 25,000-50,000 threads.

    How about you?
     
  2. fattony69

    fattony69 Regular Member

    My forum has a bit more than half of a qualified Big-Board with 279,000+ posts and it still feels small.
     
  3. Brandon

    Brandon Regular Member

    I'd say it depends on activity as well.
    I've seen some forums with 200K post and be very dead
    If you have 200-1000 users on at any one point, every day, I think you're pretty close to being "large"
     
  4. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

    I couldnt agree more, theres plenty of sites out there with millions of posts that have more or less died.
     
  5. Svoboda

    Svoboda Adept

    If you want it listed on big-boards, it's 500k posts.
     
  6. Lynne

    Lynne Regular Member

    I think over 500 currently active users online (with session timeout set to the standard 900 seconds - 15 minutes) would be considered large.
     
  7. kev

    kev Regular Member

    My own personal standards:

    At least 400 members online during the busy time.
    At least 1 million post
    At least 75,000 threads
    At least 50,000 pages indexed with the major search engines
     

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