Are anandtech forums the largest?

[aphex]

Just curious where we rank among all the other forums out there...

 

[SpecialEd]

there are other forums??

 

[b0mbrman]

You mean bandwidth or members?

 

[sohcrates]

<< out there... >>



kinda spooky to think there's a whole other world out there!!

/me curls up next to keyboard...

 

[mrCide]

slashdot has a large userbase.. though it's not exactly the same thing.

 

[sohcrates]

<< slashdot has a large userbase. >>



yep..and they're starting a subscription service just like us

 

[neovan]

Ars is pretty big

 

[pyonir]

doesn't really matter anyway though. cause everyone knows that AT is the best. and has the best people!

 

[b0mbrman]

<< doesn't really matter anyway though. cause everyone knows that AT is the best. and has the best people! >>


Yes...We are the best

 

[aphex]

members... i agree that we are.. i was just curious

 

[b0mbrman]

<< members... i agree that we are.. i was just curious >>


w00t! Chalk one up for ATOT

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< slashdot has a large userbase.. though it's not exactly the same thing. >>



Slashdot is MUCH less user-friendly. I came from the Slashdot userbase to the AT userbase.
The main reason is their message boards are based on the particular article. On AT, the messageboards are based on the users, and are constantly changing. AT is much better than Slashdot, even though I still surf /. every day to see the latest news.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

WWEEE are the champions
We are the champions...of the internet

 

[Yzzim]

90,000 members is a helluva lot of members...but how many of those members do you think are active? I usually see 700-800 or so people online when I stop in which is a far cry from the 90,000 that are registered.

Also, how many lurkers do you think there are? If there's 700 online, do you there there's twice that many lurking? Half that many?

Kinda brings up a lot of questions.

 

[Spagina]

<< 90,000 members is a helluva lot of members...but how many of those members do you think are active? I usually see 700-800 or so people online when I stop in which is a far cry from the 90,000 that are registered.

Also, how many lurkers do you think there are? If there's 700 online, do you there there's twice that many lurking? Half that many?

Kinda brings up a lot of questions. >>



I know I lurked for a good year before I finally decided to register an account and post on here. Undoubtedly there's a lot of people lurking around on these boards.

 

[PicPop]

AT is the best..i totally agree!!! b/c im here =]

 

[Spike]

I really do enjoy AT and if we are not the biggest, then we are certainly the best!!! As for lurkers (BTW, I loved using those in starcraft: brood war) I bet there are tons more then active people. I "lurk" at about 8 other smaller forums for specific adivce on certain computer related topics.

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

curiousity killed the cat

 

[Orsorum]

<< curiousity killed the cat >>



That's not the only thing...

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I was a lurker here for 2 months, then I registered

 

[wolf550e]

<< curiousity killed the cat >>


No, curiosity Skilled the cat.

 

[Spike]

No, curiosity Skilled the cat.

???

 

[Rendus]

I always throw this out there when people go "Is Anandtech bigger?"

Slashdot has a userbase TEN times the size of Anandtechs, give or take 100k.

"But a lot of them are inactive!"

A lot of users are inactive here, too.

"But they've been around forever!"

About as long as Anandtech. The registered user system was implemented either 99 or 2000, I forget.

"But what about the lurkers here?"

More lurkers there. You can post without an account on Slashdot.

 

[NotoriousJTC]

I don't know how many users slashdot has..... but IGN Boards has like 300,000+ last time i checked... It's gotta be up there.

 

[Jagoff]

Ugh, no one mentioned the Hard|Forum , its the greatest