Perhaps not a metaphor with good omens considering this other current thread:
The basic idea of Message Boards has been replaced by Reddit, Discord to some degree. Where message boards still exist, they’re basically integrated into product specific websites.
We’re are a oddity in this day and age. But in the 2000s we were one of the larger MBs so it make some sense we’re still going.
Just so long as we’re not the McDLT of message boards.
How would we know where to go ? It’ll be too late to discuss it after
it happens !
There will be whispers and rumors and claims and tall tales, from those that were here and those who claim they were here…but proper tales grow in the telling, so for those of us that can say in truth “We were there”, know there really isn’t much difference in the long run between “this happened” and “I remember this happened”.
-Mark Twain…or maybe Stan Lee…or maybe Isaac Asimov? I blame fuzzy memories. 
In fairness, the McDLT was the best burger they ever sold.
No fair-extremely low bar.
Maybe this has been addressed (I haven’t read all the posts) but if anyone would have information on the oldest revived zombie thread, that would be fun to see.
Would that be from beginning of thread to revival, or from last post previous to revival?
There used to be a Straight Dope Photo Gallery
but that URL now returns an error message.
The obvious practical alternative spot if this forum dies is a Reddit sub-reddit.
Last post to revival.
Most revivals, with gaps of a year or more, would be an interesting statistic too.
The Wayback Machine has it…
When snopes pulled the plug without warning, some of us ended up in a sub-reddit, which ended up being a bridge to SDMB.
On another message board, which was still using vBulletin, we did get a warning and 2 different boards got set up, both with Discourse. One fell to the wayside, and the surviving one is a shadow of the original. Changing both the location and the message board software was too much for a lot of people. Some went to reddit, some to Facebook, etc.
That distinction belongs to the Arch Deluxe!
Was not a fan of the dijonnaise-style sauce and the bacon was too pepper-y for my taste.
are there any MB - hitlists (no matter what year) where SD does mark? just to get a feeling for size …
That has not been my experience at all. These days, I spend my online time at a dozen or so forums / message boards, this one included, but Reddit excluded, and none of them are product specific, if I understand what you mean by it.
Might they be company related?
Most are not. And those that are, feature discussion way beyond what the company deals in, so it’s irrelevant who’s providing the platform.
Nothing current (that I know of), but Big-Boards had it consistently in the top 100 for several years around 2005.