248 peoples!?

Prof. Tor Coolguy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:03 pm

The Who is online Box wrote:

Most users ever online was 248 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:46 am

Wow that's a HUGE number, does anyone know anything more about this?

As always if this is ABP'd or just crampin' your style feel free to lock it.

Duecex2 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:43 pm

I've always wanted to know what happened that day...that day...there were 248 users on...yeah.

Thanks for asking, I was afraid to.

Cybernetic Teenybopper · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:25 pm

I dunno, maybe somebody threw a back-door Decemberween party...?

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

Woah, I don't remember that. I'm not sure what that was, I'm not sure if I was even on then.

ed 'lim' smilde · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:27 pm

I think we should try to break the record again for the forum birthday (May 8).

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

Are you counted as long as your browser is opned to the forum? Like, if I left the forum index up and went away, would I be counted.

I'm assuming so, just want to make sure.

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:07 am

Ju Ju Master wrote:

Like, if I left the forum index up and went away, would I be counted.

No. The way the forum tells how many people are online is by how many people have loaded a page in the last X minutes (where X is something like 5 or 10), so leaving the browser open to the forum won't work. Well, it will, but only for a few minutes.

Duecex2 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:48 am

ed 'lim' smilde wrote:

I think we should try to break the record again for the forum birthday (May 8).

Maybe like a forum birthday social party. Where we just talk. About...nothing really...we should do that.

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

duecex2 wrote:

ed 'lim' smilde wrote:

I think we should try to break the record again for the forum birthday (May 8).

Maybe like a forum birthday social party. Where we just talk. About...nothing really...we should do that.

But the forum doesn't reallt work that way, it's not a chatroom. Things like taht are for the IRC.

DorianGray · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:05 am

Cybernetic Teenybopper wrote:

I dunno, maybe somebody threw a back-door Decemberween party...?

Let's look at the facts.
Fact 1: it was a Saturday.
Fact 2: it was 5 days after portrait.
Fact 3: it was the Saturday right before the site's holiday drought.

Anyone able to draw a conclusion from all that?

Phlip · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:29 am

DorianGray wrote:

Anyone able to draw a conclusion from all that?

My first two guesses were:
* Something kick-awexome on H*R that everyone was clamoring to comment on.
* Massive spam/DDoS attack.

There was no H*R update around then, and there's nothing in the Spam Vault (though for a big attack TPTB might have just baleeted the threads).

A DDoS sounds most likely to me (I wasn't here at the time, I was on holidays)... it would mean a lot of page loads, from a lot of computers, evidently at least 248 of them within five minutes.

ed 'lim' smilde · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:50 am

Phlip wrote:

A DDoS sounds most likely to me (I wasn't here at the time, I was on holidays)... it would mean a lot of page loads, from a lot of computers, evidently at least 248 of them within five minutes.

Yep, that sounds like about the time the denial-of-service attacks happened (at the end of them at least). I guess that probably disappoints a lot of people, but yeah, there weren't 248 actual users on at once.

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