Top web communities run by Sabahans
March 11th, 2007As of now.
I am concentrating mainly on web communities run mainly by Kadazandusuns, so if I missed anything, pls inform. I have not devised a proper requirement to make the list, only that the forums must only allow posting by registered members. Hence sites allowing anonymous posting are automatically disqualified.
Judging from publicly viewable statistics of its forums, the most popular Sabah-based web communities could very well be the following, sorted by number of members (if that number is not available, by number of posts):
- Sabah Forum : members: 4319; most ever online: 51; threads: 1,291; posts: 8,638.
- Jebat.net : Members: 2391; most ever online: 47; threads: 406; posts: 3780.
- The #Kadazandusun : members: 767; threads: 1,377; posts: 20,500
- Guritom.com : members: 707; most ever online: 17; threads: unknown (but should be a lot judging from no of posts); posts: 54,510 [UPDATE 13th Dec 2007: according to Cicak, guritom.com is no more.
UPDATE 15th Jan 2008: According to sunsuron, guritom is now known as socmedia.] - Nuluhon.net : members: 342, most ever online: 13, threads: 199; posts: 18,498.
- Sabah Rhinos : members: about 600; most ever online: unknown; threads: 1,677; posts: 81,428.
- Kadus Entertainment : members: 3,113 [UPDATE 1st August 2008]; most ever online: unknown; threads: about 1,400 [2,417 as of 1st August 2008]; total posts: about 12,000 [21,421 as of 1st August 2008].
- akademifantasia.net: as far as I know, this site was established by a Sabahan. Members: 500+; most ever online: 270; threads: 354; posts: 5495
- Bayau.com: Members: 330; threads: 295; posts: 390
Then there’s the Chinese-language web community sabahlife.com, of which I know very little about.
Of course we are some way off the pace set by national-level web communities like jiwang.org which has been running for 10 years, apparently has more than 50,000 registered members, running on 5 separate domains. I took a peek just now and it had almost 400 members online, and that the forum had almost 5,000 threads and more than 80,000 posts.
Most of these Kadazandusun-focused sites offer streaming audio. One blog that I know does is dbos-fm.blogspot.com. Other web forums like the KDCA forum do not attract many people.
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what happend to guritom? dead?
for pure kadazandusun site, i think the #kadazandusun is the most active now. the statistik here mentioned 47000+ posts, they have radio sabah vfm also.
http://bambooborneo.com/kadus/modules/forum/index.php?action=stats
i think sabahforum, many people just join but not active at all, looking at the posts is quite small.
sabahrhinos is mixed but quite popular among sabahans.
According to cicak, Sunsuron (guritom.com’s founder I think) said: “it is time to move on.”
As for Sabah VFM radio channel, I can’t access it from bambooborneo even tho i’m logged in. Anyway, it’s also available at:
http://www.rtmsabah.net.my/sabah_v_fm.asx
Guritom is now socmedia. http://www.socmedia.com.my It’s a collaboration between me (former guritom admin) and socmedia ( recording company owned by sabahan fellow producing kadazandusun/murut cd/vcd ). I want to assure everyone that this is a good move. A lot of feature to be added soon and stay tune.
Noted. All the best!
yeah, its time to move on, go go socmedia..
Update:
Kadus Entertainment :
Members: 3113;
most ever online: unknown;
Total Topics: 2417
Total Posts: 21421
Thanks for the info.