Ok....

Petrie. · **on:** September 24, 2007, 08:36:20 AM

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Most users ever online was 36 on Sep 23 2007, 12:46 PM

Who started the block party without me?

Manny Cav · **Reply #1 on:** September 24, 2007, 09:15:09 AM

Hmm... what timezone is that? I don't think I even visited this site before some time in the evening, but I want to make sure.

Sky · **Reply #2 on:** September 24, 2007, 11:17:48 AM

What? 36 users?
How could I missed it?

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #3 on:** September 24, 2007, 11:22:08 AM

Quote from: Sky,Sep 24 2007 on 10:17 AM

What? 36 users?
How could I missed it?

Sky is right....I'm wondering how I missed it as well?..... :blink:

Weather_lord_7 · **Reply #4 on:** September 24, 2007, 11:47:09 AM

WHAT!?!?!? :blink: :angry: :mad

HOW could I have missed out!?!?? :mad :angry:

Malte279 · **Reply #5 on:** September 24, 2007, 11:48:16 AM

I missed it too, and so did Tim. Was ANYONE around at all when thirty-six were around?

Nimrod · **Reply #6 on:** September 24, 2007, 12:07:15 PM

I missed it too :mad . The whole weekend I slept only 9 hours. And there never were more users than 5 online

Petrie. · **Reply #7 on:** September 24, 2007, 03:37:46 PM

What's odd is that message would only change if there were 36 registered users logged in....that's not for guests as well (I don't think).

Malte279 · **Reply #8 on:** September 24, 2007, 04:45:24 PM

Maybe 36 members happened to showed up yesterday at the same time who don't visit the GOF regularly? It would be a strange coincidence though. We have yet to find a single member who was around at that time.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #9 on:** September 24, 2007, 05:07:05 PM

I missed it too.

Manny Cav · **Reply #10 on:** September 24, 2007, 05:12:55 PM

Quote from: Petrie,Sep 24 2007 on 02:37 PM

What's odd is that message would only change if there were 36 registered users logged in....that's not for guests as well (I don't think).

Actually, I believe InvisionFree includes guests in that statistic as well. Regardless, I doubt I was even close to being around at that time, no matter what timezone that's in.

Weather_lord_7 · **Reply #11 on:** September 24, 2007, 07:23:03 PM

Maybe it was an outburst of guests?

Lain_EX · **Reply #12 on:** September 24, 2007, 07:24:59 PM

36? How come I never realized that? :huh:

action9000 · **Reply #13 on:** September 24, 2007, 07:42:40 PM

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Actually, I believe InvisionFree includes guests in that statistic as well.

If that is the case, perhaps it was something to do with a bot. Last year we had a case of many guests hitting the site all at once, which we suspected was a spambot of some sort. This may be a similar case IF guests count towards the total...I didn't think they did though either, Petrie.

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no matter what timezone that's in.

I believe that copy-paste, being from Petrie's computer, makes it the -6:00 timezone.

Manny Cav · **Reply #14 on:** September 24, 2007, 11:02:13 PM

I'm 95% sure that guests count towards the most visitors visited total. I'm on another InvisionFree board that has waaay more "most visited" than actual members. And, besides, when you check "Who's Online", it counts guests in the list, too. I'm almost certain that guests count.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #15 on:** September 25, 2007, 12:02:27 AM

I missed it. Perhaps someone's idea of a joke? Perhaps some sort of error? You could have easily done this if you hacked invisionfree, but who'd bother? The most logical explaination I can come up with is someone registered and clicked the confirmation email. Some viruses open multiple windows at once to crash a computer. Perhaps this happened and invisionfree had some problems too and registered many times at once. It is highly unlikely, but it's the most likely explaination I can come up with. 36 members online at once is so unlikely. And I do not think it counts guests. If you look and there are 3 members online and 2 guests, it never counts the guests. It is highly unlikely that there could be 36 members online at once.

Manny Cav · **Reply #16 on:** September 25, 2007, 12:05:11 AM

I've been messing around with InvisionFree's software for a while now. Like I said, I'm almost 100% certain that guests are counted in that figure. I know my way around InvisionFree fairly well.

Petrie. · **Reply #17 on:** September 25, 2007, 06:54:57 AM

I never had a point to look at it until someone brought it up.

Manny Cav · **Reply #18 on:** September 25, 2007, 01:34:20 PM

Ah, yes. I just remembered. There's a section at the bottom that says "Board Statistics". It looks something like this:

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w user(s) active in the past 5 minutes
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x guests, y members, z anonymous members

'w' is always the total of 'x', 'y', and 'z'. It combines the guests, members, and anonymous members to make the number in the "total members active in the past # minutes" figure. So, in short, that 36 counts guests, too. It was most likely a large influx of guests that caused that, combined with a high number of members.