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SkyscraperCity, also known as SkyscraperCity.com, is the world's largest
online forum An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporar ...
on skyscrapers and urban related topics. The website, which currently runs on
XenForo XenForo is a commercial Internet forum software package written in the PHP programming language. The software is developed by former vBulletin lead developers Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan. The first public beta release of XenForo was released i ...
, was founded in 2002 by Dutch economist Jan Klerks running on
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,TU Delf: Lezing door Jan Klerks over hoogbouw
/ref> in order to share and solicit comment on urban development in
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. It gradually expanded to include other city and country subforums, eventually encompassing the entire world. As of 2019, the forum has over 1 million members, 1 million threads and over 110 million posts. By some measures, it was considered the largest online forum in the world in 2010 or largest online bulletin board in the world. In 2009, the forum attracted more than 500,000 unique visitors daily. In 2018, SkyscraperCity was acquired by
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and the forum was migrated from vBulletin to
XenForo XenForo is a commercial Internet forum software package written in the PHP programming language. The software is developed by former vBulletin lead developers Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan. The first public beta release of XenForo was released i ...
in 2020.


Volunteers

The site works by allowing members to add photos and other details to the website. Despite the fact that many facts on the site are not vetted, news organizations quote the users on the web site. The photos uploaded by volunteers are often used in news articles.


See also

* Emporis * SkyscraperPage * Structurae *
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings and sustainable urban design. A non-profit organization based at the Monroe Building in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States ...


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