When is a forum considered large?

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  1. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    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

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    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

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    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

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

    Svoboda Adept

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

    Lynne Regular Member

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    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

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    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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