Hot on the heels of a similar post about myBB on larger forums, does anyone use SMF in a larger forum environment?  (Where larger forum would be, say, 10K+ users, 250K+ posts)

http://forum.joomla.org/ - this site has 116,000 + active members and 885,000+ posts. i just went there and there are 1227 guests and 60 registered users

http://www.rockettheme.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,190/ - this site also uses smf forum and has a large community

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php - has almost 100,000 registered users and over 1 million posts , right now, there are 1500+ guests and 94 users

so i guess it's safe to assume that smf can handle large communities

I've seen a few large SMF forums. One that comes to mind it I think redandwhitekop I'm not sure about the exact url as I haven't used it for a long time. You can try google or just going directly to the SMF community and searching there. I remember seeing a thread with a similar topic there before.

My philsophy is if you want a sucsesfull forum, invest right, SMF Is safe yes, but still hackable, and explitable, and if I were to have a big forum with 1000+ members, I would definitely want a vB or maybe even IPB forum, for security reasons.

Here's a pretty large and active forum using SMF:

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/