What happened this day? (Question for dev or oldie forumer)

[Urqui]

8k people online on forums this day? Even with forums so active now it's still yet to be beaten...3 years ago.
What happened?

[DocDoBig]

Aww man! I wanted to create a thread to ask about that since it bothered me.

Just kidding, did some researches and only found this:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...10-at-12-15-PM

The same question asked ... 3 years ago.
I looked at my Timeline: No special update or so.
I looked on Facebook: Nothing special.

Well would be cool if we could search threads and posts by it's date but we can't. Time to do some sport with scrolling down 1000's of threads I say!
The highest number of online users in the past weeks was almost 5k, though.

P.S.: I see myself online on the list!

[Late]

Hey I see me and its prob the announcement of PLs first event (Halloween) first ever

[DocDoBig]

Hey I see me and its prob the announcement of PLs first event (Halloween) first ever

Announcing Halloween in July? Oo
That would be like saying Happy 2014 today.

[Late]

Announcing Halloween in July? Oo
That would be like saying Happy 2014 today.

Oops didn't see the 7 thought it was a 9

[DocDoBig]

Here are all the not deleted threads which were made on this date:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/foru...c&daysprune=-1

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/foru...c&daysprune=-1



Nothing world-shattering actually.

[Zeus]

I got two hypotheses:

1. The EC2 servers went down on that day

2. It was a stress test to see how many members the forums could handle before it shut down. Going by today's events, I have to go with #2 because the most likely answer.

[DocDoBig]

I got two hypotheses:

1. The EC2 servers went down on that day

2. It was a stress test to see how many members the forums could handle before it shut down. Going by today's events, I have to go with #2 because the most likely answer.

Yeah #2 is more likely, they would have announced that maintenance like today.

[Urqui]

5400 online now
Plus, site is slow & taking forever to load threads.

[DocDoBig]

5,700 now.

\m/_(O.O)_\m/ let's roll it to death!

5,8 now!

[Samhayne]

Honestly, it was a bug with an older version of the chat box where crawler bots (like search engines and more nefarious web crawlers) got stuck in the chat box archives and after a couple of days without noticing, there were thousands and thousands of bots connected to the forums, trying over and over again to crawl through that archive.

I should probably nuke that number/date, but hey, there are probably better things to be done .

[DocDoBig]

Honestly, it was a bug with an older version of the chat box where crawler bots (like search engines and more nefarious web crawlers) got stuck in the chat box archives and after a couple of days without noticing, there were thousands and thousands of bots connected to the forums, trying over and over again to crawl through that archive.

I should probably nuke that number/date, but hey, there are probably better things to be done .

Ohhh! Interesting to know that. Thanks.
But yes, my vote is to reset that number. It's kinda not to count as "valid".

[Bilaxman]

I didn't intend to bring this message from long ago but I found it interesting that the old record was shattered earlier today....

[razerfingers]

I didn't intend to bring this message from long ago but I found it interesting that the old record was shattered earlier today....

Woah thats not sketchy at all o.O