Large Vanilla Sites
  • cspielman2cspielman2
    Posts: 2
    As a part of my considering adopting Vanilla, can anybody give sample URL's of Vanilla sites that are "large", meaning lots of content, lots of users, high traffic, etc.

    Thanks in advance.
  • snytkinesnytkine
    Posts: 15
    Good question. I want to know this too. I once had a forum running vbulletin and it grew to 5 million posts and was still going reasonably fast.
  • cspielman2cspielman2
    Posts: 2
    You might find http://www.big-boards.com/ interesting. Someone pointed it out to me. I don't see Vanilla listed at all. Nor Zoho which is another one I'm looking at. vBulletin is all over the place - indicating that it can handle the biggest forum sites.

    I'm very new to forum products in general, but I don't get the impression that Vanilla is the most highly scalable product. Just an opinion at this point.
  • garymardellgarymardell
    Posts: 815
    What would suggest that vanilla isn't a scalable product? Have you seen some of the coding of vbulletin, i admit i haven't seen vanilla forums as big as vbulletin, but that doesn't mean the software doesn't scale.

    However i think vanilla fulfills a different niche anyway, i don't think the categorization would suffice for a larger forum and i can imagine a lot of discussions just being thrown off the end of the first page almost immediately. However your welcome to prove me wrong, just a feeling really.
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,880
    Before the most recent revision of the firefox addons site, Vanilla 1 was used as the discussion tool for addons for Firefox.

    Despite this fact, Vanilla 1 didn't scale well. Vanilla 2, on the other hand, handles load much better. We're working on making core changes so it can handle extremely large sites. We're also working with some partners on doing big implementations. We'll be showing these on the homepages after they're up :)
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