Record-Breaking: Most Users Online (75) on 09-18-2003 at 04:51 PM

[drizzle]

This event must to be celebrated, right Greg?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Tonight could be it! Everyone online tonight around 9-9:30 CST! :D

 

[Borek]

Tonight could be it! Everyone online tonight around 9-9:30 CST! :D

No way

 

[I_am_learning]

I didn't realize at first that this is a very old thread. In first few posts, you guys were celebrating for ~80, yes 'eighty', people online at once (to my great surprise, before I checked the date).
PF (or the internet as well?) has done a huge progress, it seems.

 

[Drakkith]

I didn't realize at first that this is a very old thread. In first few posts, you guys were celebrating for ~80, yes 'eighty', people online at once (to my great surprise, before I checked the date).
PF (or the internet as well?) has done a huge progress, it seems.

Yep, you could say that. From 80 people to nearly 10,000!

 

[dlgoff]

I didn't realize at first that this is a very old thread. In first few posts, you guys were celebrating for ~80, yes 'eighty', people online at once (to my great surprise, before I checked the date).
PF (or the internet as well?) has done a huge progress, it seems.

How times fly. That first post was just two months before I joined PF.

 

[drizzle]

I got to a feeling.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I got to a feeling.

We got about an hour until we traditionally hit our high for the day :)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We don't keep track of members online, but I see 220 and I don't believe I've ever seen it that high!

 

[Astronuc]

We don't keep track of members online, but I see 220 and I don't believe I've ever seen it that high!

I think exceeding 200 members online at once is a milestone. The number of members online today stayed near or above for quite some time this afternoon.

Next activity milestones would be 300 members and 10,000 persons (members and guests) online simultaneously.

Other milestones will be 400k members and 600k threads.

 

[Evo]

Number of members online has been something I've always watched. I rememeber the night we had 27 members online and I thougt wow, we've hit the big time!

What I find odd is how many members say that they browse without loggin in.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Passed 400,000 members today!

 

[Integral]

I remember one day and 27 members (not including guests) were online and I thought "now we've made it!"

On PF2 I remember checking in every hour or so to see if there were any new posts. Also I could not imagine graduate level physics discussions happening. It is really amazing to read through the first 50 posts of this thread. PF2 was a bit over 2years old we upgraded to PF3, So in 2 years we had managed to get to a max of 75 online, over the next year it jumped to over 300 online. Just Wow.

 

[Drakkith]

Passed 400,000 members today!

Wow, that's a lot of members..

 

[mfb]

Just a small fraction of them is active. I would expect that a significant fraction came for a few homework questions only.
The userids are close to 500.000: 480000 registered today

 

[ImATrackMan]

Wow, that's a lot of members..

If you felt like it, could you guys give a prize to the 400,000th member (if you guys know who that is)?

 

[Astronuc]

Coming up on 600,000 threads. Only 152 to go.

 

[dlgoff]

122 to go.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Let's do it!

 

[Astronuc]

29 to go! (at 11:30 am) EDT

9 to go! (at 12:26 pm) EDT

 

[mfb]

• Threads: 599,984

Who deleted threads .

Edit: Back:
• Threads: 599,994

 

[Enigman]

600,001 threads!

 

[drizzle]

Lol, this reminds me of our race to hit post #3M or so, if I remember right, Evo hit it.

 

[Evo]

Lol, this reminds me of our race to hit post #3M or so, if I remember right, Evo hit it.

I hit it along with 1-2 others, so I didn't count, but yeah, those milestones are fun!

 

[Astronuc]

Another record: Over 3 million views.

Sometime today - Japan Earthquake: nuclear plants
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200
Posts = 14,198, views = 3,000,297


Thanks to all the contributors!

 

[DavidSnider]

Random thoughts is the best!

 

[Evo]

Yes, Random thoughts has - 21,410 posts!

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=687099

 

[Borek]

Another record: Over 3 million views.

Sometime today - Japan Earthquake: nuclear plants
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200
Posts = 14,198, views = 3,000,297


Thanks to all the contributors!

Technically it got 3M vies few days ago, as we should add views from part 2 (around 9k as of today). I stopped to keep track of the views once the thread got split.