What is the highest amount of posts you've seen

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What is the highest amount of posts you've seen

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On any forum on any webpage, ever.

Highest I have seen it over 50,000.

Can anyone beat this?
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For a forum? phpBB at 2,271,435 as of 8:39 AM PST on October 20, 2006 (just now). Or for a user?

EDIT | Sorry, Sitepoint forums at 3,050,076, same time as above.
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This is the larest community i have seen - http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/

Gaia has 813,178,815 articles posted with 4,849,130 registered users.

Hardware: 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server

There is a "big list" here - http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=phpBB,all
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Holy crap! They have almost as many users online right now as we have in our entire member list. Dang!
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Post by impulse() »

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

What's the highest post count you've saw for a person on any forum, anywhere.
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offtopic.com, can't remember name but well over 100,000.

Threads: 2,834,099, Posts: 65,389,861, Members: 155,232
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JayBird wrote:This is the larest community i have seen - http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/

Gaia has 813,178,815 articles posted with 4,849,130 registered users.

Hardware: 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server

There is a "big list" here - http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=phpBB,all
that's incredible...wtf is gaia?
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that's incredible...wtf is gaia?
Forum-based RPG, if memory serves.
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Post by s.dot »

I've seen users on a few community sites with 100,000+ posts.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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