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December 12[edit]

Is there an Internet forum thread with ≥100,000 posts?[edit]

≥200,000? ≥a million? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 23:13, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Posts made by humans? (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 23:53, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes by humans (though thanks for the funny image, I hadn't thought of AIs conversing @ kiloposts/second for.. something (data mining?)) Or are there human threads that get resurrected by literally millions of Viagra spams, all competing to be last? Or are you just surprised at the number? I've seen a >32,000 post, >1,600 page human thread (no spam) over a decade old but I don't know how big that is in the grand scheme of things. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 01:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The forum index at https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum indicates that the Bay Window Bus forum has a post count in excess of 1 million. Kreemoweet (talk) 04:39, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Dutch Fok! forum (which currently has 2,415,432 threads and 175,784,371 reactions) has several topics with more than 100,000 posts. Strictly speaking, threads can only have 300 reactions (a limit hardcoded in the forum software), longer topics are implemented using "topic chains" (basically, when the limit is reached, a user clicks "new part", which creates a new thread with the same opening post and title, adds a sequence number to the title or increments the value if already present, and adds navigation links to the previous part and to a listing of all previous parts). In the Music subforum, "Radio 49" topic (about Fok! webradio) currently has 2210 "parts" or more than 662,700 (300*2209) posts, "Gitaristentopic" (guitar players topic) more than 180,000 posts, and "Wat luister je nu" ("what are you listening now") more than 700,000. Crisis in Syria and Irak in the News subforum has 448 parts (> 120,000 posts). The "Polcafé" topic in Politics (a slow chat topic) is probably the longest one, started in december 2002 and has 7671 parts (> 2,300,000 posts). Prevalence 14:04, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]