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CraigRT

Lifer
Jun 16, 2000
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I'm totally shocked this is ranked that low... I thought it was a huge forum, I was guessing close to top 10, but I guess not anywhere near it!
 

Nitemare

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
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Originally posted by: CraigRT
I'm totally shocked this is ranked that low... I thought it was a huge forum, I was guessing close to top 10, but I guess not anywhere near it!

They don't count archived or deleted messages
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: TuffGirl
No they don't. The number of current msgs for each AT forum is listed here, which now adds up to 575567. So all we hafta do to get ranked higher is get zuni or whoever to archive threads less frequently.:p I bet that's what many of the top ranked forums do, just never or seldom archive.[/quote]

Yeah I think this is all based on current threads, not total (it would have to be really since some high volume boards come and go).

VWVortex I was a part of for a long time (VR6 GTI)....they definitely have critical mass.

You can sort by members (click members) and we get #13, a much more usable number.
 

bolido2000

Diamond Member
Dec 3, 2001
3,720
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AT has lots of users, but look at forums like genmay have like 300-400 people logged on at any time.
 

PlatinumGold

Lifer
Aug 11, 2000
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Originally posted by: jjsole
Originally posted by: BigSmooth
According to Zuni, we should be #2 on the list by post count: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=42&threadid=1163965

yep that list is bogus. :|

The top ten AT posters alone account for over 327k.

the board seems to not have a way to track the # of posts on Fusetalk boards like it does with the other boards there. that's why AT forums wasn't even listed untill recently. i know i submitted AT as a candidate for the boards about 2 days ago.
 

Miramonti

Lifer
Aug 26, 2000
28,653
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Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: jjsole
Originally posted by: BigSmooth According to Zuni, we should be #2 on the list by post count: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=42&threadid=1163965
yep that list is bogus. :| The top ten AT posters alone account for over 327k.
the board seems to not have a way to track the # of posts on Fusetalk boards like it does with the other boards there. that's why AT forums wasn't even listed untill recently. i know i submitted AT as a candidate for the boards about 2 days ago.

Looks like he may have fixed it. The main page shows 9,330k+ but earlier today he quoted only 9,328k.
 

PanzerIV

Diamond Member
Dec 19, 2002
6,875
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Originally posted by: ness1469
Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder
[_H_]It's surprising that hardforum is even up there, you know, since they are down at least 3 times a week.

Sad but true. Seems like Hardforums problems have caused a lot of posters to defect at least partially to other sites as I have done. They are still getting posts but I noticed recently that a lot of the threads are stagnating. :(
 

ViRGE

Elite Member, Moderator Emeritus
Oct 9, 1999
31,516
167
106
Sweet, now all we have to do is get them to update the counting methodology, and we're #2(and soon to be #1 after we overtake GSI).
 

PunDogg

Diamond Member
Jan 15, 2002
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Originally posted by: TuffGirl
Originally posted by: KK
I would think we would rank higher than that, the only other Fusetalk board that is higher is Fatwallet. I wonder if the post counts are counted differently than the other boards. Do they count the archived messages?

KK
No they don't. The number of current msgs for each AT forum is listed here, which now adds up to 575567. So all we hafta do to get ranked higher is get zuni or whoever to archive threads less frequently.:p I bet that's what many of the top ranked forums do, just never or seldom archive.

yeah they just don;t archive stuff, whereas here at AT they keep a nice clean ship

Dogg
 

Ionizer86

Diamond Member
Jun 20, 2001
5,292
0
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Wow, Genmay's # of members is way skewed vs. the posts, but after reading that kid & mom thread, it was obvious why ;)
 

ed21x

Diamond Member
Oct 12, 2001
5,411
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Originally posted by: bolido2000
AT has lots of users, but look at forums like genmay have like 300-400 people logged on at any time.

I see around 600 people logged into AT right now.
 

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
62,484
8,345
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Sad but true. Seems like Hardforums problems have caused a lot of posters to defect at least partially to other sites as I have done. They are still getting posts but I noticed recently that a lot of the threads are stagnating.

That's because the average HF user is 12. Once they turn 15, they come over here.