The world’s most popular web forums

Looks like it’s a tussle between gaiaonline.com (Gaia Online) and the Japanese forum 2ch.com (2channel).

Big-Boards.com reports that Gaia Online is the largest on the Internet, with over a million posts made daily, over a billion posts total, and over 2.5 million unique users each month, and with almost 8 million members.

In comparison, as far as I know, jiwang.org is the biggest online forum in Malaysia, with possibly more than 50,000 members.

However, Big-Boards.com only lists forums that contain accessible members and posts counts.

According to some other source, 2channel could be the largest web forum in the world. Japan Media Review reported in August 2004 that 2channel is used by almost 8 million people a month.

Sources
wikipedia on 2channel
wikipedia on Gaia Online
big-boards.com
ojr.org

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