Ylilauta has tens of thousands of users every day,[1] and in June 2022 it was Similarweb's 35th most popular site in Finland according to listing.

[3] Users of Ylilauta twice gathered a consolatory prize for two Finnish YouTubers who had not received an award at the annual Tubecon event, despite winning in the People's Choice category.

[4] In October 2023, Ylilauta was converted into a partially paid service due to demands from the owners.

Browsing the website is free, but older threads are only visible to users with a paid "gold account", which had already been available before the change.

[7] Technical director of F-Secure Mikko Hyppönen later approached the Ylilauta user base, requesting that any person who had downloaded a specific file that contained all the data acquired in the breach send a copy of it to the police, as it might contain technical information that might help the criminal investigation.