The forum has a high alexa rank and 500k backlinks. yes I know stats mean nothing, but I think it could be genuine. Who knows....
Look at this one: Temas(Threads): 434,560, Messages:: 4,853,044, Usuarios(Members): 784,338....!!!! It is the largest vBulletin forum i know! http://www.psicofxp.com/forums/
According to alexa ranking, DP is bigger than UG forum... ^^ PS: Also many vbull forums fake their stats just to look more populated, there are several vbulletin hacks released on vbulletin.org that you can use to fake your forum stats...
Not to be nasty to the DP forumnites but if DP forums consist in a large part of "please PM info", would that not be considered spam or at least not a high quality type of post.
Offtopic is ranked in the Top 10 of all Internet forums by the number of posts, still there aren't too many advertisers rushing to buy a banner place at the very top of the forum that costs only $200 a month, an example of advertisers' Internet publicity underappreciation.
Wow, thanks for all the replies. This is a good conversation about what is out there and what the possibilities for a forum can be. I never knew of most of these big forums until now.
I'm the owner of Psicofxp.com, I know that we are not the biggest forum, but at least we are in Spanish
DP is one of the biggest forums in the world. When you're at the forums frontpage, the figures you see there aren't 100% accurate. See this to learn why.