Apolyton is the 350th largest forum on the web.

[Dinner]

It appears that the ranking is related to total number of posts ever, which is a completely useless metric for determining to what extent a decade old forum is currently active.

Edit: According to them we had 0 posts last week
http://www.big-boards.com/board/52/

Oh, I didn't know that. A good point.

Does anyone know a good site for ranking forums based on daily traffic or number of unique visitors per day?

[rah]

One that has stats for more than 2248 sites would probably be better.

[Dinner]

According to this website apolyton.net is currently getting about 15k unique visitors per month:

http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/www.apolyton.net

apolyton.com is getting almost zero:

http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/www.apolyton.com

While CFC is getting almost 30k unique visitors per month:

http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/www.civfanatics.com

And the panda site is getting around 800 unique visitors per month:

http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/www.weplayciv.com

I'm sure all three will get a nice boost out of the release of Civ5 later this year though it's clear weplayciv is lagging far behind the big two as one would expect. On a different note I seem to be the only person actually using the apolyton.com address instead of the .net address.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

One forum I use has a general OT forum with over 5 million posts, and a second chat forum with nearly 2 million others. All forums considered, it's had over 10 million posts, and it's not on that list.

However its EZboard ancestor, with only 300,000 or so posts in total, is there. Go figure.

[Dinner]

It seems like we could mess around with things to bring our Google page rank up a bit and that would help us close the gap with CFC.

[Dinner]

One forum I use has a general OT forum with over 5 million posts, and a second chat forum with nearly 2 million others. All forums considered, it's had over 10 million posts, and it's not on that list.

However its EZboard ancestor, with only 300,000 or so posts in total, is there. Go figure.

I'm not sure how they do it. They must use some sort of automated web crawler so maybe the site you mentioned blocks web crawlers in some way? Or maybe the original list was just rubbish.

[Cort Haus]

Go figure.

Didn't realise you were American, Laz. Although maybe the incorrect spelling (it should have an exclamation mark) suggests otherwise.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Hell will freeze over before I debase myself through using exclamation marks.

[Ecofarm]

I'm not always 'a clown'. I hate clowns. I mean what I write except when I'm obviously joking/teasing.


I passed and you're all welcome.

[Dr Strangelove]

'Prison Talk' has higher ratings than 'poly.

[Dinner]

Looking at the panda sites numbers we almost quadrupled their traffic when we "trolled" them asking about their unfair and illogical rules so really the panda ****ers should get on their knees and beg us to come back.

[Cort Haus]

Hell will freeze over before I debase myself through using exclamation marks.