hi,
i'm the creator and owner of big-boards.com. Just thought i'd drop in to clarify some points.
big-boards is not biased towards vbulletin, or any other software. It just happens there are a lot more large vbulletin forums than ubbs.
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Big-Boards tracks the most active message boards and forums on the web, that have been submitted and approved for display on thier site
Indeed, knowing that any board fitting the requirement is included, and that big-boards has existed for more than a year, the link being posted hundreds of times on the boards listed, giving it a large exposure to people frequenting active message boards.
While 6 months ago we used to still receive submissions of very large boards, in the past 3 months 80% of new additions were boards which just passed the 500000.
Doesn't mean we're exhaustive for sure, but getting closer.
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[qb]Further, the number of posts they have listed is "historical", not current[/qb]
this is incorrect.
817 out of the currently 920 boards listed have their stats fetched and updated daily.
The truth is however, that a lot of the 100 that do not get updated are UBBs, because they need to be manually counted due to a lack of way to retrieve the counts dynamically on the cgi version (as discussed here: https://ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/26/3149.html#000000,on the php one, the post id can be fetched).
Overall, the accuracy of the rankings is not the primary objective of the site, the main goal is more to provide categorized lists of active forums.
As per hostboard, it wasn't included because it is more of a hosting service like proboards/ezboard/invisionfree and similars which are not listed as a whole. If a singular instance on hostboard reached the 500000, it would be listed.
Cheers,
Quentin
