There's room for as many boards as there are groups of like minded individuals.
Other than the most dedicated board whores, I think most people will participate actively in 2-3. They may sporadically read a handful. That's a function of time.
Size of the board really will be a function of your target audience. GFY is huge because it is dominated by young males who are playing the TGP game for what most of us would consider beer money. But unfortunately that is by far the largest segment of the adult industry right now. There's alot of those guys and GFY reflects it. Due to the size of that audience GFY does draw some of the larger players as well when they go over there to troll for newbies to send them traffic, buy their content, etc.
Oprano will never be the size of GFY because the target audience here is typically older, more experienced webmasters who have been at this a few years. There's a much smaller potential pool of participating users to draw from. The lurker factor on Oprano is likely higher than most boards as I suspect a lot of people read to try to gleam some of the knowledge but may be too intimidated to actively participate.
I think the ship has sailed for creating a new mega board unless one of the existing ones fucks up and there's a mass migration (it's happened before). But there will always be smaller boards popping up dedicated to individual niches such as amateurs, newbies, or whatever else you can think of. And most sponsors do have their own boards for support now.
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