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« on: June 18, 2007, 09:22:58 AM »
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)
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2007, 12:58:32 PM »
I don't know of any, I am sure they are out there.  Perhaps this will become one? Wink
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2007, 03:49:27 PM »
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 Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 11:16:15 AM »
Dont worry!! SMF is  most stable and suitable for large forums after Vbulletein..Vb has no match but SMF is also good...
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2007, 09:30:54 PM »
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.
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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2007, 02:38:37 AM »
I have seen many large forum but almost all of them have Vbulletin. I think people always like to feel more secure. Paid forum setups have a lot of support which has a more secure feeling. Whenever a free or open source forum setup crashes, who would be responsible?
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« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2007, 03:07:50 PM »
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.
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2007, 11:48:15 AM »
Although IPB and VB are paid forum setups but If someone take it in the sense that open or free softwares are vulnerable then probably he is wrong. I think freewares are more reliable because these are being constructed by developers all over the world. You can feel it by Linux.
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« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2007, 03:37:47 PM »
Here's a pretty large and active forum using SMF:

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