http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: top100 en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:40:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-turns-2-today-happy-birthday-bbpress#post-20018 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:58:32 +0000 _ck_ 20018@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've just added an an experimental "cloud view" for the Top 1000 forums so you can spot patterns in words and trends.</p> <p><a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000?cloud" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000?cloud</a><br /> (requires free registration to use)</p> <p>I'm still tweaking some of it's visual layout and abilities but it's fun to play with. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-turns-2-today-happy-birthday-bbpress#post-19936 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:41:02 +0000 Nekita 19936@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Happy birthday bbPress and a huge 'THANK YOU' to everyone involved and the nice people answering questions here. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-turns-2-today-happy-birthday-bbpress#post-19932 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:06:20 +0000 bharatk 19932@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Well _ck_,</p> <p>Your Post is in good time, it's the birth of the Set Forever forum powered by bbpress 1.0 alpha 2 (as it's called currently).</p> <p>So bbPress installations are surging to nearly 5001 forums and todays bbPress installations may have just been 11 with the one on Set Forever.</p> <p>Please take a look and be gentle as it's my first work with bbPress.</p> <p><a href="http://www.setforever.org/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.setforever.org/forums/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-turns-2-today-happy-birthday-bbpress#post-19923 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:47:31 +0000 Malfhok 19923@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hooray! I can't wait for a stable 1.0 beta release! Thanks to everybody who helped get bbPress this far, and will take it farther in years to come. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-turns-2-today-happy-birthday-bbpress#post-19919 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:27:37 +0000 _ck_ 19919@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><a href="http://bbpress.org">bbPress</a> turns 2 years old today!!!</p> <p>It's been a big year with new features being added at a rapid pace thanks to hard work by Sam and Mike. It's an easy guess that we should see a stable 1.0 beta by the end of 2008.</p> <p>But don't let the modest sounding "1.0" fool you, it's practically a "2.0" inside with all the changes since 0.9 including BackPress integration (merges core functions from WordPress) and an XML-RPC api like WordPress as well. </p> <p>While Matt Mullenweg (Automattic/WordPress founder) <a href="http://photomatt.net/2004/12/29/bbpress/">created bbPress during Christmas 2004</a> to power <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress.org</a>, version 0.7.2 (nicknamed “bix”) was only <a href="http://bbpress.org/blog/2006/10/bbpress-072/">officially released for public consumption</a> on Saturday October 14th 2006 making it two years old today.</p> <p>Regardless of being <a href="http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/wikipedia-overlords-delete-bbpress-page/">summarily deleted from Wikipedia this year</a>, bbPress has never been more popular. I've been tracking bbPress growth via the <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100">Top 100</a> and <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000">Top 1000</a> lists for over a year now and this month shows the list surging to nearly 5000 forums, with bbPress being used in over 80 countries and in dozens of languages.</p> <p>Roughly 10 sites a day have installed bbPress over the past two years and over 70% them continue to use it. The largest bbPress forum is about to break a million posts by the end of the year and just to be on the Top 100, a forum now needs at least 7000 posts.</p> <p>bbPress hosted forums via TalkPress (ala WordPress.com) are on the horizon, and with new <a href="http://bbxf.org/">forum conversion software</a> being developed and more <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-plugins">plugins</a> and <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes">themes</a> available than ever before, bbPress will definitely make it's mark in 2009 and should have a very exciting third year! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19207 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:15:35 +0000 _ck_ 19207@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I did say "or regions" which should cover Europe ;-)<br /> "Europe" is triggered by the use of the .eu domain </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19205 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:39:27 +0000 Shagalaga 19205@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>15. Europe</p> <p>He? Europe is a continent not a country ;-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19203 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:52:10 +0000 mark8barnes 19203@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Slightly intrigued to come across this. I'm behind find-answers.net although it's not in my profile, because (a) it's not a personal site, and (b) it's not officially released.</p> <p>_ck_ How did you find it? I've not linked to it nor told anyone about it! Check the administrator profile, you'll find the site has only been up four days! (So it wasn't even live when the September top 100 was put up.) That is one reason I'm not yet sharing the code. Quite simply, it doesn't work properly yet.</p> <p>The other reason I'm not yet able to share the code is that I need to make sure the licence I want to use is compatible with the licences of the borrowed nntp libraries.</p> <p>If it's any interest, one of the forums currently has around 475,000 posts. That equates to 411Mb of MySQL data in all the bbpress tables (including indices). The posts table has 208Mb of data and a 162Mb index.</p> <p>_ck_ They're not fake sub-domains. I've simply grouped forums into helpful 'clusters' and added a subdomain (actually a separate bbpress installation) for each cluster (why buy a new domain for each site?). They look fake because find-answers.net just contains a tiny bit of php code which scans my database tables for the separate installations and presents it in a forum like view. But each site is a separate installation.</p> <p>Finally, the main purpose of this was to present data from non-propagating newsgroups which most people can't access. It was largely curiosity that led to me create subdomains for publicly accessible newsgroups. I've no idea whether Google will like it or not. There's certainly other NNTP mirrors out there that do get indexed.</p> <p>And you're quite right about me needing the SuperSearch plugin! It is me that you're talking to here: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fulltext-searching-very-slow" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fulltext-searching-very-slow</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19199 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:29:09 +0000 _ck_ 19199@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've done some research (and actually got an email from the find-answer owner out of the blue today) and I believe the site/request are unrelated.</p> <p>But it does prove that it would be a wanted plugin.</p> <p>Google/Yahoo might not like all the duplicate content however so "noindex" might be a good idea to prevent being search-engine banned.</p> <p>Another consideration is that I believe bbPress keeps a full index on post text, so the table size for posts would become non-trivial for such a forum. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19191 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:43:15 +0000 chrishajer 19191@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I wonder if the find answers site is related at all to this inquiry:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-newsgroups</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19187 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:13:18 +0000 _ck_ 19187@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>September also features the first site to be purposely excluded from the listings. Not that I am passing judgement on it as there are other sites far more dubious that are in the list where the content is not their own.</p> <p><em>find-answers.net </em></p> <p>It's impressive in that someone wrote a bbPress to Usenet gateway. But its not right to include it on the list since there will be millions of posts in no time at all and they use a fake subdomain for each group.</p> <p>At least it proves bbPress can handle such a load. They are going to really want my Super Search plugin (not released yet).</p> <p>I do wish they'd share the code they made to accomplish that however, especially considering they seem to be using my theme, my plugins, my favicon, etc.</p> <p>(What I really want is a Mailman to bbPress gateway!) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19136 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:10:15 +0000 Detective 19136@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Viva Chile Mierda !!!</p> <p>Great work, _ck_. Thanks. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19127 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:29:52 +0000 _ck_ 19127@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Well that's all for now, hope you enjoyed it.<br /> Your feedback and ideas are encouraged. </p> <p>I should note that sites that seem to be spammer operated or that I detect are infected by XSS scripts have been dropped from the list. There are currently eight sites affected by XSS and I have attemped to notify the owners (apparently without success). These infections are not from a bbPress fault but rather the overall security of their server and other software running on the site (otherwise it would be rampant). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19126 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:13:11 +0000 _ck_ 19126@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>A new feature this month is an analysis of Server and PHP software popularity. What's interesting is how Apache use is slowly being eroded by other options. Also, PHP4 is still VERY popular (1 in 3 servers use it!)<br /> <pre><code>Server Popularity (alphabetical order) ---------------------------------------- Abyss/2.0.0.20-x2-win32 : 2 Apache : 800+ Apache/1.3 : 900+ Apache/2 : 40+ Apache/2.0 : 800+ Apache/2.2 : 1000+ Ideawebserver/v0.50 : 3 Lighttpd/1.4 : 15 Litespeed : 20 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 : 12 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 : 80+ Microsoft-IIS/7.0 : 2 Nginx : 19 Nginx/0.3 : 2 Nginx/0.5 : 17 Nginx/0.6 : 10 Nginx/0.7 : 2 Webserverx : 16 Zeus/4.3 : 2</code></pre> <p><strong> </strong><br /> (abnormalities and unknown entities have been dropped)<br /> <pre><code>PHP Popularity (by version) ----------------------------- 4.3 : 200+ 4.4 : 900+ 5.0 : 40~ 5.1 : 200+ 5.2 : 2000+</code></pre> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19125 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:07:29 +0000 _ck_ 19125@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>bbPress is being used in over 80 countries (or regions).</p> <p>Here is a sample in order of popularity:<br /> <pre><code>. 1. United States 2. Germany 3. Spain ** 4. United Kingdom 5. Russian Federation 6. Italy 7. Turkey 8. France 9. Sweden 10. China 11. Denmark 12. Netherlands 13. Canada 14. Japan 15. Europe 16. Romania 17. Czech Republic 18. Brazil 19. Norway 20. Austria 21. Poland 22. Australia 23. Switzerland 24. Hungary 25. India 26. Chile 27. Belgium 28. Argentina ** 29. Indonesia 30. Finland 31. Ukraine 32. Saudi Arabia 33. Greece 34. Lithuania 35. Israel 36. New Zealand 37. Slovakia 38. Latvia 39. Mexico ** 40. South Africa</code></pre> <p><strong> </strong><br /> ** This list is subject to some inaccuracies based on guesstimates of language used or target audience. For example, a page in Spanish may be intended for an audience in Mexico, Argentina, or in Spain. A page in Arabic may be intended for several countries in the middle-east, etc. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19124 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:55:30 +0000 _ck_ 19124@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>bbPress is currently installed on at least 5,000 sites.<br /> Here is a breakdown of bbPress forums by total posts:<br /> <pre><code>Posts Count 0 - 99 3,000+ 100 - 999 640 1,000 - 4,999 180 5,000 - 9,999 52 10,000 - 49,999 44 50,000 - 99,999 12 100,000 - 499,999 7 500,000 - 999,999 2</code></pre> <p><strong> </strong><br /> By my calculations, a bbPress forum will break a million posts by the end of this year! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-september-08-update#post-19123 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:47:28 +0000 _ck_ 19123@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It's time for the (completely unofficial) TOP 100 report!</p> <p>I am very pleased to report the list has swelled to <strong>OVER 4000 sites</strong>, even though 200 sites have been dropped since last month due to domains expiring, disappearing DNS or other reasons. This means in the past 30 days, well <strong>over 1000 sites have been added!</strong></p> <p>This month also brings new features to the list - considering it's now overwhelming size I have added a basic search ability to the Top 1000 list.</p> <p><a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100</a></p> <p><a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000</a><br /> (<em>Top 1000 requires free registration/login</em>) </p> <p>User voting on sites is still pending, sorry (my limited time has unfortunately been taken doing plugin fixes for 1.0 alpha). I hope to have it working in time for bbPress's TWO YEAR birthday next month (October 14th).</p> <p>This month I have also calculated some additional, interesting statistics on the data to give a better analysis of bbPress's incredible growth... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-august-2008-update#post-18499 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:06:53 +0000 DJP 18499@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>my site has more posts than the lower half of the listing. Why'm I not in there?</p> <p><a href="http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum/</a></p> <p>username: bbpress<br /> Login: bbpress</p> <p>just asking... :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-august-2008-update#post-17923 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:45:59 +0000 _ck_ 17923@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Some bbPress forums with unusual designs:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youlookfab.com/welookfab/" rel="nofollow">http://www.youlookfab.com/welookfab/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.zanzibar19.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zanzibar19.com/forums/</a></p> <p><a href="http://cairoshell.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://cairoshell.com/forum/</a></p> <p><a href="http://forums.astateofmind.eu/" rel="nofollow">http://forums.astateofmind.eu/</a></p> <p><a href="http://forum.3oneseven.com/" rel="nofollow">http://forum.3oneseven.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://mybabyourbaby.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://mybabyourbaby.com/forums/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.adityanaik.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.adityanaik.com/forums/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.doncastergamers.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.doncastergamers.co.uk/forum/</a></p> <p>(more to be added later) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-august-2008-update#post-17922 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:44:42 +0000 _ck_ 17922@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Some popular/famous/large sites that use bbPress:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/forum/</a></p> <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/community/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/community/forum/</a></p> <p><a href="http://giveawayoftheday.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://giveawayoftheday.com/forums/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/</a></p> <p><a href="http://support.technorati.com/discussions/" rel="nofollow">http://support.technorati.com/discussions/</a></p> <p><a href="http://chawlk.com/notes/" rel="nofollow">http://chawlk.com/notes/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-august-2008-update#post-17920 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:31:31 +0000 _ck_ 17920@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>More statistics:<br /> 4) bbPress is now being used in nearly 80 countries!<br /> Top countries by estimated rank:<br /> 1. USA<br /> 2. Germany<br /> 3. Spain<br /> 4. United Kingdom<br /> 5. Russia<br /> 6. Italy<br /> 7. Turkey<br /> 8. France<br /> 9. Sweden<br /> 10. China<br /> 11. Denmark<br /> 12. Canada<br /> 13. Netherlands<br /> 14. Europe (misc unknown)<br /> 15. Japan<br /> 16. Romania<br /> 17. Norway<br /> 18. Argentina<br /> 19. Czech Republic<br /> 20. Austria<br /> 21. Belgium<br /> 22. Brazil<br /> 23. Poland<br /> 24. Switzerland<br /> 25. Australia<br /> 26. India </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-august-2008-update#post-17919 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:21:33 +0000 _ck_ 17919@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It's time to take another look at the (unofficial) bbPress Top 100 list! I've come up with some more advanced ways to find bbPress forums and I am pleased to announce the full list has broken 3,000 forums and provided for some new discoveries for the Top 100:</p> <p><a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100</a><br /> (based on activity, not quality, which is subjective)</p> <p>If you register/login you can also see the sites that may have just missed the top 100 via the top 1000:<br /> <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000</a></p> <p>August update was essentially aimed at finding new sites, not updating stats for existing sites. I'll do a full re-analysis next month.</p> <p>Some really nice looking sites among the bunch. I enabled "snapshots" so you can mouse-over their little logo and get a general preview. I hope to improve the list soon with the ability to vote on the design of any site.</p> <p>Also new for this month is an attempt to guess what country the site is "aimed at" (not hosted in or TLD used). This is very difficult to determine and I estimate my automated route is currently correct only 70% of the time.</p> <p>Some interesting statistics...<br /> 1) bbPress has been installed on at least 4000 sites<br /> 2) There are now at least 200 sites with over 1000 posts.<br /> 3) A bbPress forum will break one million posts late 2008</p> <p>More analysis as I have time...</p> <p>If I missed your site be sure to post it for the next update! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-listings#post-17371 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:48:54 +0000 Anonymous 17371@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>whats the link i want to add mine in : <a href="http://www.picbi.com/forum" rel="nofollow">www.picbi.com/forum</a></p> <p>?</p> <p>EDIT: CK do you know how to resolve this issue :-</p> <p><a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-gravatar-on-frontpage" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-gravatar-on-frontpage</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-listings#post-17368 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:14:09 +0000 _ck_ 17368@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Right now I have it simply by number of posts which of course is not an indication of quality by any real means but easiest way for me to track.</p> <p>There's also the top 1000 list where I try to track everyone.</p> <p>It's not a contest, no-one wins anything, and it's completely unofficial, so don't worry about it ;-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-listings#post-16525 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:59:36 +0000 DJP 16525@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi all</p> <p>I am going live with my site soon, and was wondering how the showcase of Top 100 forums is rated. Is it by number of users on each forum or is it voted for?</p> <p>Thanks :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-may-2008-update#post-16524 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:48:12 +0000 DJP 16524@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>lol, sorry, just read about how to submit in the forum. My bad.</p> <p>:) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-may-2008-update#post-16523 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:46:00 +0000 DJP 16523@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>How do we make a bbpress forum submission? I am going live in less than a week &#38; have made quite a lot of interface tweaks to suit the style of my site. I'd love to submit mine for inclusion on the showcase.</p> <p>Let me know.</p> <p>Fanx :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-may-2008-update#post-16135 Mon, 12 May 2008 01:35:22 +0000 sambauers 16135@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You might have missed all the international wordpress.com forums, although only one or two might creep into the top 100.</p> <p><a href="http://de.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://de.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://el.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://el.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://en.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://es.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://es.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://fa.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://fa.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://fr.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://fr.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://id.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://id.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://it.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://it.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://nl.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://nl.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://pt.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://pt.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://pt-br.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://pt-br.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://sv.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://sv.forums.wordpress.com</a><br /> <a href="http://tr.forums.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://tr.forums.wordpress.com</a></p> <p>You should change the listing for the English forum to en.forums...</p> <p>Look out for i18n number formats! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-may-2008-update#post-16032 Wed, 07 May 2008 19:05:41 +0000 _ck_ 16032@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I am getting better at routines to find non-english bbPress sites and have now added a few hundred more sites!</p> <p>(bbPress is being used in at least two dozen countries!) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-may-2008-update#post-15983 Mon, 05 May 2008 17:43:45 +0000 _ck_ 15983@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Add some numbers? Oh you mean to show position #</p> <p>Well the problem is I tinker with it from time to time.<br /> If I find a new site that's not in the top 100 I'll usually just queue it until next time but if it's a biggie I will rebuild the list right away.</p> <p>Plus the number of posts is subjective and no indication of quality. I don't really want to make that part a contest or people will start faking results and I'll have to delete their listing entirely. </p>