Some forums with HUGE threads running:
http://www.dadesiforum.com/Longest-Amazing...er-t106421.html around 70000 replies
http://forums.cobaltandcalcium.com/showthread.php?p=1529327 around 150000 replies!
any other you have got to share?
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haha thats crazy!
We were working on a forum a couple of weeks ago where one single topic had well over 1 million posts - that's over 50,000 pages at the default setting.
I have seen some with more pages than those links, but not close to a million posts in one topic.
QUOTE (Rikki @ Sep 1 2008, 08:56 PM) 
We were working on a forum a couple of weeks ago where one single topic had well over 1 million posts - that's over 50,000 pages at the default setting.
rofl
QUOTE (Rikki @ Sep 1 2008, 07:56 PM)
We were working on a forum a couple of weeks ago where one single topic had well over 1 million posts - that's over 50,000 pages at the default setting.
Wow. What was the topic about
There used to be a topic on the Anandtech forums entitled "butter" which had over 1 million posts. Unfortunately it got taken down a few years ago now.
A popular topic on a forum I used to go to kept having people banned from it and then the staff's great decision was to totally delete it rather than just make it invisible to keep a record that it existed.
we had a word games thread which was a few hundred pages long (was a word association game).
QUOTE (Rikki @ Sep 1 2008, 06:56 PM)
We were working on a forum a couple of weeks ago where one single topic had well over 1 million posts - that's over 50,000 pages at the default setting.
please post the link.. i would be VERY interested to see this
QUOTE (stuclark @ Sep 1 2008, 09:12 PM)
There used to be a topic on the Anandtech forums entitled "butter" which had over 1 million posts. Unfortunately it got taken down a few years ago now.
sad the forum is no longer there
i havent heard of this name though... was it popular only in a particular region, say Asia?
QUOTE (Chris T @ Sep 1 2008, 04:09 PM)
Wow. What was the topic about
It was a spam topic designed to let the users, in one topic, post rubbish (e.g. one word replies like "forum") simply to build up post count.
QUOTE (chillax @ Sep 3 2008, 12:26 AM)
please post the link.. i would be VERY interested to see this
Ultimately it started causing server issues because of the massive size of the thread, so it was put into a hidden staff forum (I presume the members would simply start another, but that wasn't the issue itself).
the unique thing about the threads i quoted is that they are no spam threads... you can go and check 
QUOTE (chillax @ Sep 3 2008, 05:26 AM)
sad the forum is no longer there i havent heard of this name though... was it popular only in a particular region, say Asia?
i havent heard of this name though... was it popular only in a particular region, say Asia?The forum still exists, it's http://forums.anandtech.com - and no, t's not an Asia only website (if anything it's more US only) - it's a technology website. One of the most famous. Infact, Anandtech uses FuseTalk, which was originally written for that site when their previous UBB forums died.
Edit: Here's an example of how famous the site is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/18/mu...nandtech_forum/
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