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 Post subject: 248 peoples!?
PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:03 pm 
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Most users ever online was 248 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:46 am


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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.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:43 pm 
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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.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:25 pm 
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I dunno, maybe somebody threw a back-door Decemberween party...?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:02 pm 
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Woah, I don't remember that. I'm not sure what that was, I'm not sure if I was even on then.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:27 pm 
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I think we should try to break the record again for the forum birthday (May 8).

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:37 pm 
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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.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:07 am 
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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.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:48 am 
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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.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:57 am 
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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.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:05 am 
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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?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:29 am 
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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.

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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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