Most Users Ever Online: 1264 in 2004

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The highest number of users online at once was 1264 on May 13, 2004, coinciding with significant online interest in a beheading video. This surge in traffic was attributed to users searching for related keywords, with another peak of around 600 users linked to the John Titor thread's prominence in Google search results. Recent activity saw over 1,100 members online without any specific event driving the traffic. Discussions suggest that external factors, like college exam weeks or being featured on sites like Slashdot, could influence user engagement. Overall, the conversation highlights how certain events can dramatically impact online community traffic.
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Most users ever online was 1264, 05-13-2004 at 10:26 PM.

Wow! What did I miss? Some mass gathering of PFlings? Is it going to happen again anytime soon?
 
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I believe that was at the time of the first beheading video, there was a thread in one of the forums and apparently many people were googling for the keywords
 
Yeah. The latest high was the beheading video. The next highest - 600 or so I think - had to do with the John Titor thread being on the top 3 google results for Titor.
 
enigma said:
Yeah. The latest high was the beheading video. The next highest - 600 or so I think - had to do with the John Titor thread being on the top 3 google results for Titor.
A couple of months ago, for a few days, we were exceeding 1,100 members online, there was nothing special going on that I can recall, not too many of those were spiders either.
 
If heads must fail for us to increase our popularity, then so be it ! :approve:

Daniel.
 
My first guess, before reading the followup postings, was that it must have been final exam week at a lot of colleges and universities. :smile:
 
I think the last record was when we got slashdotted. So if anyone is on slashdot, give us a shoutout :biggrin:
 
jtbell said:
My first guess, before reading the followup postings, was that it must have been final exam week at a lot of colleges and universities. :smile:

Hah, yeah that was one of my thoughts too..

Beheading, eh? that's unpleasant


That's cool that google helps PF traffic these days
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
I think the last record was when we got slashdotted.
When ? I'd like to see that.
 

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