Talk:List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users

What qualifies as a social networking website here?
For example should question-and-answer sites like Quora and Gutefrage.net be included?

The title says virtual communities and the text social networking website so there's also some ambiguity here.

--Fixuture (talk) 23:15, 9 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I was also a bit confused. Do all these sites have a newsfeed allowing interactions with others in the community?  I was surprised to not find YouTube, Pinterest, TripAdvisor, SoundCloud.  Even interest-based ones like Ultimate Guitar, Strava or Chess.com are missing here.  Ibibo is a company - it has nothing to do with communities.  I shall go ahead and remove the same. BhaskarNS (talk) 10:52, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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Progressive discussion
Hello, One quite interesting aspect of progressive discussion on important topis would have to be the simplification of term to a base level ; there for most everyone can under tandem and accomplish MI or progression on extremely important issues and topics. Doppler91012 (talk) 22:38, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

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Sort by number of registered users
It would make sense for this list to default to sorting by the number of registered users in descending order. Currently, the table defaults to sorting alphabetically by name. Is there an easy way to change this? -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:45, 26 January 2019 (UTC)


 * It doesn't look like there's an easy way to do this. See WP:TABLESORT: When users are first presented with a table, the rows will always appear in the same order as in the wikitext. If you want a table to appear sorted by a certain column, you must sort the wikitext itself in that order. Ahiijny (talk) 20:28, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

List status & outdatedness
While interesting, the list is hugely outdated. Some communities listed here have been defunct for almost a decade, some of the newer communities are not even included (I just had to add Instagram with 2B users...). The question is: does this list represent an archive of communities or a current overview? If the former, 'active users' should be converted to 'highest number of users' or something similar. If the latter, the list needs to be filtered for defunct communities and many of the stats need to be updated. Also: the Alexa column might be removed, since Alexa is about to be dismantled (May 2022). --Gummbahla (talk) 10:25, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Alexa Rank Shut down May 1, 2023
I've just added Avaaz, a community with over 69 million members. I was unable to include the Alexa rank because the service shut down.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22825744/amazon-retiring-alexa-web-ranking-sevice YQUVWynjszHUwDzv (talk) 19:38, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia or Wikimedia?
Shouldn’t our community be on this list too? Onceinawhile (talk) 20:33, 15 June 2024 (UTC)