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Urqui
08-15-2013, 11:57 AM
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?
http://imgur.com/1gIGRFZ.jpg

DocDoBig
08-15-2013, 03:21 PM
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/showthread.php?14241-Most-users-ever-online-was-8-712-07-09-2010-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
08-15-2013, 05:08 PM
Hey I see me and its prob the announcement of PLs first event (Halloween) first ever

DocDoBig
08-16-2013, 08:13 AM
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
08-16-2013, 10:38 AM
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
08-17-2013, 07:48 AM
Here are all the not deleted threads which were made on this date:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/forumdisplay.php?6-PL-General-Discussion/page38&pp=25&sort=dateline&order=asc&daysprune=-1

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/forumdisplay.php?19-Off-Topic-Discussion/page9&pp=25&sort=dateline&order=asc&daysprune=-1



Nothing world-shattering actually.

Zeus
08-25-2013, 05:08 PM
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
08-25-2013, 05:10 PM
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
08-25-2013, 05:13 PM
5400 online now
Plus, site is slow & taking forever to load threads.

DocDoBig
08-25-2013, 05:33 PM
5,700 now.

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

5,8 now!

Samhayne
09-21-2013, 05:07 AM
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
09-21-2013, 06:52 AM
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
12-10-2013, 01:07 AM
I didn't intend to bring this message from long ago but I found it interesting that the old record was shattered earlier today....

49614

razerfingers
12-10-2013, 01:22 AM
I didn't intend to bring this message from long ago but I found it interesting that the old record was shattered earlier today....

49614

Woah thats not sketchy at all o.O