{"id":7716,"date":"2012-03-19T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2012-03-19T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:07:06","slug":"brixton-based-urban75-forums-notch-up-an-incredible-11-million-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-based-urban75-forums-notch-up-an-incredible-11-million-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton-based urban75 forums notch up an incredible 11 million posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"urban75<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the urban75 forums<\/a> notched up their 11\u00a0millionth\u00a0post, a pretty\u00a0incredible\u00a0landmark for a non-profit, self-funded bulletin board that carries no advertising.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The first version of the Brixton-based boards started up in 1996 as a no-frills, Perl\/CGI-powered forum that was swiftly withdrawn after being filled up by nutty Internet people.<\/p>\n

Successive versions of the boards have offered more sophistication and admin controls, and after several years using the vBulletin<\/a> software, we moved to the excellent XenForo software<\/a> in August 2011, becoming their biggest UK installation.<\/p>\n

The boards now boasts over 41,000 registered users and covers a huge range of topics, with over 30 themed forums covering subjects from politics, protest, football, music, film, local issues, transport to knitting and cooking.<\/p>\n

As of March 2012, the most popular forms on the site were:<\/p>\n

1. uk-politics-current-affairs-and-news
\n2. urban75-general-forum
\n3. health-relationships-sexuality
\n4. world-politics-current-affairs-and-news
\n5. brixton
\n7. books-films-tv-radio-writing
\n8. football
\n9. drugs
\n10. suburban (home\/cooking\/crafts)
\n11. music
\n12. drugs<\/p>\n

\"urban75<\/p>\n

Entirely funded by users who donate\u00a0anonymously\u00a0(and thus get no added privileges), the urban75 community has proved to be a truly wonderful thing, with the site spawning many marriages, births and long-term friendships!<\/p>\n

I count many of the urban75 community amongst my very best friends, so it’s great to see the site still going strong and still offering a non-corporate, non commercial alternative to the\u00a0likes\u00a0of data-mining companies like Facebook.<\/p>\n

urban75 users: I salute you!<\/p>\n

Read more about the background to urban75 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the\u00a0urban75 forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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