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List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users
- blakesterz 10y agoWow, that list is waaaay shorter than I expected it would be. Kind of shocking to me that there aren't more "virtual communities" over a million users.
- dstik 10y agoWhile interesting, I don't think you can expect that list to be comprehensive or kept up to date. For example, Facebook (as of this writing) has 1.79B monthly active users[1], well over the 1B listed on that page. I also assume Yelp (not listed) has over 1M active users. [1] http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
- AznHisoka 10y agoThey are being too restrictive on what they define as a virtual community. For instance the forums in city-data.com has more than a million members. Same with bodybuilding.com
- stormbrew 10y agoKeep in mind that having a million users on your site doesn't warrant it even meeting Wikipedia's notability threshold on its own. You need to add "... Mentioned on Wikipedia" to the submitted title. [Source: I used to work on one of the sites on this list, and its article went through AfD several times and it barely made it each time. It was never the number of users that saved it. Also it shows how stale this list is, because it shouldn't still be on there.]
- wslh 10y ago4chan? It is not there.
- lainon 10y agoI doubt 4chan has any "registered members" at all.
- nbm 10y agoBe careful comparing the "Registered Users" metric on the page between sites. In some cases they're using total number of registered accounts on the forum, and in others they're using metrics that involve recent activity, like a "Monthly Active" metric. Also, don't trust the numbers, even if they're cited. The current value for Twitter (500 million) is cited as being from an article in 2011 that mentioned 200 million. The Twitter company page - https://about.twitter.com/company https://about.twitter.com/company - says the current official monthly actives is 313 million.
- wslh 10y ago100% agree, I remember posting on a LinkedIn forum with more than 1 million members and there was no a single click on the link... Lot of LinkedIn groups are ghost towns. On the other hand I had found more answers about topics in specific subreddits with less users than in StackOverflow/StackExchange sites.
- yoodenvranx 10y agoYes. StudiVZ is listed with 17 Mio registrations but it is virtually dead. People used it for the first 1 or 2 years when it was popular and then everybody moved to Facebook.
- majewsky 10y ago> for the first 1 or 2 years when it was popular Context: It was immensely popular when I just entered university, which was in 2006.
- askvictor 10y agoFacebook (et al) is not a community; it is a platform that hosts communities. It's probably more analogous to a country or religion than a community.
- Aardwolf 10y agoOdd that wikipedia itself isn't in the list
- cooper12 10y agoThe list is about registered users. According to Wikimedia, the number of active registered Wikimedia editors for all Wikipedia projects in February 2009 was ~85,000. (https://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ https://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/) In a more recent count (and more tightly controlled against double counts) for October 2016, that number seems to be ~65,000. (https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm#activitylevels https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm#activit...) Note also that activity can fluctuate based on month so that also explains the decreased number. (during the summer more students will contribute)
- edem 10y agoThis is badly outdated. For example iWiW have been closed years ago.
- angry-hacker 10y agoBlackplanet is surprising for me. I don't know how active those 20mil are, but that's a very good percentage from the total percentage of blacks in America. Does anyone know more about the site or is an active member?
- tyingq 10y agoSee page 93 of http://www.journalism.org/files/2015/04/FINAL-STATE-OF-THE-NEWS-MEDIA1.pdf http://www.journalism.org/files/2015/04/FINAL-STATE-OF-THE-N... Says 390,000 unique visitors for January 2015, according to ComScore. For comparison, DeviantArt has roughly the same number of "registered users", but gets about 6,000,000 uniques/month. I suppose "registered users" is close to useless as a measure, because some may be automated spam accounts, some forums clean up dead accounts / others don't, etc.
- mlinksva 10y agoShorter list but at some point will be more comprehensive and source for linked article https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3Fusers%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP1833%20%3Fusers%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fsite%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3Fusers%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fusers%29 https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3...
- krick 10y agoNot sure if tis list is worth something. Like, are you saying 4chan has less than 1 million users? Well, I don't know. Even if it's "registered users" I'm not sure if I can believe it.
- Asparagirl 10y agoTake the stats with a grain of salt. For example, MyHeritage (which is on the list) has owned Geni (also on the list) for some time now.
- diamondo25 10y agoHyves used to be the thing you had as a schoolkid. It had support for showing your relation to somebody (through people in your friendlist), gifs, almost fully customisable pages, a whole set of emoticons and other things. When Facebook came around, most people left (mostly kids) because of parents getting on the platform. There's a video of a lonely woman that had contact with friends through Hyves, and said "But how am i supposed to send my friends animated pictures now :("