FluxBB XXL - Big Forums Running FluxBB

trichome · 2010-03-10 03:30:31

We all know and love FluxBB for being super lightweight. An install of Flux is noticeably snappier than any of the major forum offerings, especially once you have over 50 people browsing concurrently. 150+ on shared host with vb phpbb or ipb... doubtful. In fact, Flux is one of, if not the fastest PHP apps I've ever used.

Google has proven that page load speed is a huge factor in keeping users happy, not that it was a big surprise. But it is surprising that there aren't more people using Flux... yet! I'll take this opportunity to give my obligatory thank you to the devs. I know there have to be some bigger forums running Flux, and those admins and users appreciate the efficient, well written code that is this great piece of software.

So what are some of the bigger Flux boards out there? Bigboards doesn't seem to have any listed...

http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/ is the biggest I'm aware of:
163024 users
373912 topics
3083883 posts

Bonus: Post your own numbers.

My board's around 2 years old and seems to be growing quickly. probably about 60 people (users + guests) online average. Max was ~1K
Total number of registered users: 2,441
Total number of topics: 1,847
Total number of posts: 59,718

BTW, I did search for a similar topic (pretty sure one exists) but got 0 results for "big OR biggest OR large OR largest".

Last edited by trichome (2010-03-10 03:51:39)

Tyler · 2010-03-10 04:06:52

Arch Linux - http://bbs.archlinux.org/ (33035 users)
Facebook Developers - http://forum.developers.facebook.com/ (61966 users)

Smartys · 2010-03-10 04:23:56

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/index.php

w205 · 2010-03-10 04:37:13

Tyler wrote:

Arch Linux - http://bbs.archlinux.org/ (33035 users)
Facebook Developers - http://forum.developers.facebook.com/ (61966 users)

I really love Arch Linux skin and it's number

User informationNewest registered user: robwalk82
Registered users online: 20
Guests online: 100

Total number of registered users: 33035
Total number of topics: 89231
Total number of posts: 698648

john3voltas · 2010-03-10 07:31:27

w205 wrote:

Tyler wrote:
Arch Linux - http://bbs.archlinux.org/ (33035 users)
Facebook Developers - http://forum.developers.facebook.com/ (61966 users)
I really love Arch Linux skin and it's number

It is really slick, ins't it?
I love it too.
I wonder if I can make something similar to that.
Cheers

w205 · 2010-03-10 07:41:16

john3voltas wrote:

w205 wrote:
Tyler wrote:
Arch Linux - http://bbs.archlinux.org/ (33035 users)
Facebook Developers - http://forum.developers.facebook.com/ (61966 users)
I really love Arch Linux skin and it's number
It is really slick, ins't it?
I love it too.
I wonder if I can make something similar to that.
Cheers

To make something similar (copy) is easy but I meant the idea and imaging of the designer is hard to get.

Franz · 2010-03-10 08:41:42

The Facebook forum is running PunBB, as far as I know. Or did they recently change it?

Reines · 2010-03-10 08:43:04

Nah it's still running PunBB

Tyler · 2010-03-10 19:04:33

Oh whoops, didn't realize it was PunBB.

adaur · 2010-03-11 07:49:36

I think I know the biggest board who runs FluxBB

This is a warez (it's so bad ^^) french forum, its statistics:

Members :733195
Topics :221434
Posts :2824151

If you want the URL, PM me

zzillezz · 2010-03-19 10:53:49

http://forum.utorrent.com

Total number of registered users: 299586
Total number of topics: 59563
Total number of posts: 342785

That's pretty big too :-)

lurker · 2010-03-23 17:13:10

I've always liked the utorrent theme.

sirena · 2010-03-23 22:41:21

I would certainly be very interested to hear any feedback from these megasites about their experience running Flux. In particular, stuff like what hardware, what web server and/or database they use (InnoDB anyone?), what PHP caching, how they manage db backups of what must be HUGE databases, how they manage various site issues/headaches (spam?) etc. And of course their Flux optimisation tips.

Mpok · 2010-03-24 22:19:10

@sirena : imo, the only (but sometimes major) problem these "megasites" (as u said) can have is related to 'search' feature.
Search is very effective in FluxBB, but not optimized for big sites (number of posts) : the search tables become huge very quickly (first problem, with limited database in size), and thus performance decreases as well (second problem, with large attendance forum).
Some "megasites" have chosen to leave the search to Google because of these pbms.

Lirodon · 2010-03-27 02:06:32

I'ma try and get EEEuser to migrate to 1.4

Total number of registered users: 75899
Total number of topics: 79335
Total number of posts: 684032

Pretty impressive stats there.

Franz · 2010-03-27 09:09:25

They're using an old version of PunBB!? They should update anyway...

MattF · 2010-03-27 12:17:30

Where's the thread for other sites, (not specifically large boards), running FluxBB? I'm sure there's one somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

eliot · 2010-03-27 12:31:12

MattF wrote:

Where's the thread for other sites, (not specifically large boards), running FluxBB? I'm sure there's one somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

http://fluxbb.org/forums/topic/1274/flux-sites/

MattF · 2010-03-27 12:34:26

Cheers eliot. How embarrassing. Can't even find a thread I created.

blankblank · 2011-05-20 04:39:54

trichome wrote:

We all know and love FluxBB for being super lightweight. An install of Flux is noticeably snappier than any of the major forum offerings, especially once you have over 50 people browsing concurrently. 150+ on shared host with vb phpbb or ipb... doubtful. In fact, Flux is one of, if not the fastest PHP apps I've ever used.
Google has proven that page load speed is a huge factor in keeping users happy, not that it was a big surprise. But it is surprising that there aren't more people using Flux... yet! I'll take this opportunity to give my obligatory thank you to the devs. I know there have to be some bigger forums running Flux, and those admins and users appreciate the efficient, well written code that is this great piece of software.
So what are some of the bigger Flux boards out there? Bigboards doesn't seem to have any listed...
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/ is the biggest I'm aware of:
163024 users
373912 topics
3083883 posts
Bonus: Post your own numbers.
My board's around 2 years old and seems to be growing quickly. probably about 60 people (users + guests) online average. Max was ~1K
Total number of registered users: 2,441
Total number of topics: 1,847
Total number of posts: 59,718
BTW, I did search for a similar topic (pretty sure one exists) but got 0 results for "big OR biggest OR large OR largest".

nice

Flunk · 2011-07-31 21:34:54

the arch linux forum is nice, i tried registering but the security question is a bit tricky

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