New PF record!

[Ivan Seeking]

Active users:

Record: 2,035 @ Today

The previous record was at least a year old.

 

[Ki Man]

Yay! We should see if we can get those new shipments of fish off of backorder...

 

[Danger]

Does that count spiders? (Seriously, I don't know.)

 

[Evo]

Yay! We should see if we can get those new shipments of fish off of backorder...

First Greg needs to order those new freezers. I remember what happened last summer when the freezers broke. :yuck:

Does that count spiders? (Seriously, I don't know.)

Yes, that would include spiders.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Hurray! That record held for a long time! About 1000-1200 of those are spiders, but hey, spiders are visitors too :)

 

[Evo]

Today set another record - 2,096.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That last record was due to an unusual spike in activity - I want to say that it went all the way back to the Nick Berg video - so we should start breaking this record regularly now.

Is that right? It was set some time around May 2004?

 

[Ki Man]

maybe if there is some type of major break though there will be another spike

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Record: 2,215 @ 03.14.08

 

[binzing]

Spiders?

 

[Astronuc]

Spiders?

Programs that visit websites in order to mine and sift through the text/data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

 

[Math Is Hard]

I rather like the Google spider that's been hanging around here lately.

 

[binzing]

Yes, that was what I was thinking.

 

[Moonbear]

I rather like the Google spider that's been hanging around here lately.

Yes, it seems they're getting friendlier now, not just sucking up data, but actually contributing a little too.

 

[Kurdt]

I noticed the other day we broke the record and again a couple of days ago.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=220417

 

[G01]

I noticed the other day we broke the record and again a couple of days ago.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=220417

I wouldn't surprised if the share menu had something to do with this new record. Keep digging everyone!

 

[Danger]

not just sucking up data, but actually contributing a little too.

That weirded me out enough to start with, but not nearly as much as noticing that one of them is now sporting a 'Homework Helper' ribbon.

 

[chroot]

That weirded me out enough to start with, but not nearly as much as noticing that one of them is now sporting a 'Homework Helper' ribbon.

Google decided that it was too easy to just index and archive all the world's information. Now, the Google spiders actively invent new information, too.

- Warren

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Record: 2,254 @ Oct13-08