What is the best online forum of all time?

Old-school message boards sit next to anonymous imageboards and reputation-driven Q&A sites here, each with its own house rules and in-jokes.

1. 1
   Reddit

   Discussion site founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, organised into user-run communities called subreddits.
2. 2
   Something Awful Forums

   Paid-membership forums of the comedy site Richard Kyanka started in 1999, where the term Let's Play was coined.
3. 3
   Digg

   Social news site launched by Kevin Rose in 2004 where users voted stories up or down; its 2010 redesign pushed many users to Reddit.
4. 4
   4chan

   Anonymous imageboard launched by Christopher Poole in 2003, where many early internet memes first spread.
5. 5
   Stack Overflow

   Programming question-and-answer site founded by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008, built on voting and reputation points.
6. 6
   Fark

   News-link aggregator founded by Drew Curtis in 1999, where members submit stories under joke headlines and comment on them.
7. 7
   Hacker News

   Technology and startup link board that Paul Graham launched at Y Combinator in 2007, written in the Arc language.
8. 8
   ResetEra

   Video game and culture forum founded in October 2017 by former NeoGAF members and moderators who left that site after its owner's scandal.
9. 9
   Quora

   Question-and-answer site founded in 2009 by former Facebook employees Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.
10. 10
    The WELL

    Early online community started in 1985 by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant in Sausalito, California.
11. 11
    XDA Developers

    Forum for mobile developers and Android modders launched in December 2002, named after the O2 Xda line of Pocket PC and Windows Mobile handsets.
12. 12
    Gaia Online

    Anime-themed forum community launched in 2003 with customisable avatars and a virtual item economy.

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