I was wondering who our elder forums are.
How old is your forum?
How did your forum get started?
Provide a short history of your forum software. Where did you start, and when did you come to Discourse?
How many members have been active since your first year?
My forum LotusElan.net will be 23 years old this April. The community has existed since 1999.
We started in 1999 as a ONElist mail group. ONElist was purchased by eGroups and then purchased by Yahoo Groups. In 2003, we started our forum using Invision and migrated to phpBB version 2 in 2005. In 2025 we moved over to Discourse.
We still have 121 active members from our first year.
Actually my history with Discourse begin with this community 6 years ago but my own instance has almost 2 years
I did my praised my personal experience here:
I am so pround and glad with my instance and I just can be thankful to CDCK for that.
How old is your forum? MineralRightsForum began November 2009 - online 16 yrs now
How did your forum get started? Simple hunch that there was a need.
Provide a short history of your forum software. Where did you start, and when did you come to Discourse? Started with Ning, migrated to Discourse in May 2018. An excellent move.
How many members have been active since your first year? Great question. I’d estimate several hundred.