Xiahou Shake posted...
What are the "big" boards these days, anyway? Unless message boards as a whole are dying, people must be going somewhere. >_>
Obviously 4chan is huge but there's pretty much no sense of community there due to the anonymity.
I don't think there really are many websites left that have such board-centric communities as GameFAQs does (did?) . Like, various official game forums are still popular such as LoL, WoW, SC, and Minecraft, as are many of their fan/news sites, ex.. MMO-Champion for WoW. But beyond official and/or single game specific forums like those, I don't think there are any websites that really have independent forums that are THAT popular; at least no more than GameFAQs. I mean you've got your Gamespots and Escapists, but I don't think they're any more populated than our site is. I have no idea how Somethingawful or Fark's "paid members only" forums are doing these days either.
Other things I can think of, you've got-
Reddit-Not really so much a forum as we're talking about here, but can function in largely the same way.
Team Liquid-I have no idea about the history of the website, and they're pretty popular these days due to being fueled by SC2's popularity and their association with that game.
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