As of June 14, 2018, it is rated the sixth most frequently visited website in Hong Kong.
Since 2007, the PRC Government has blocked the Hong Kong Discuss Forum, preventing citizens of the country from visiting the website.
[citation needed] According to Alexa Internet, Hong Kong Discuss Forum ranks as the fourth most visited website in Hong Kong, and the eighth most visited website in neighbouring Macau.
Many post-communist messages are placed at the default top of columns by the administrators which are intentionally twisting or misinterpreting history or news to make them favorable to the PRC communists.
Recent members' responses was that the forum was flooded with messages from the "Fifty cents Gangs" (五毛黨, the nickname of the peripheral organization of PRC communist party specially trained to manipulate communication over the Internet.
They are funded to distribute these messages in cyber space, online forums, social media, YouTube, and more., in order to "brain-wash" the people of Hong Kong.