Top 5 Internet communities
By Justin Silverton
1) http://forum.deviantart.com/
Name: Deviant art
Description: Online Art community
Posts: 5,390,933
Members: 5,068,184
2) http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/index.php
Name: Gaia Online
Description: Anime roleplaying community
Posts: 819,515,279
Members: 4,924,634
3) http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.categories
Name: myspace
Description: Social networking and dating site forums
Posts: 912,500
Members: 4,150,200
4) http://www.imdb.com/boards/
Name: Imdb
Description: Movies message boards
Posts: 13,087,050
Members: 4,111,600
Name: IMobile (chinese)
Description: Mobile phones community
Posts: 16,018,061
Members: 4,016,125
The top bulletin board being used right now is vbulletin, which was built using php/mysql.
More statistics can be found here: http://rankings.big-boards.com/?sort=members
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