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

[lisab]

Dangerously close to the record. Each time I refresh it goes up! 50 more.

OK I was about to sign out, but now I guess I'll hang out a bit longer .

 

[lisab]

Active Users: 8118
(162 members and 7956 guests)
Record: 8,118 @ T

OK I'll leave now, haha.

 

[Astronuc]

09:39 EDT Active Users: 8126 (162 members and 7964 guests) or 8127
then
09:42 EDT 8145
09:44 EDT 8172
09:45 EDT 8177
09:47 EDT Active Users: 8175 (165 members and 8010 guests) to 8,184 (165 members and 8019 guests)
09:49 EDT Active Users: 8178 (163 members and 8015 guests) Record: 8,217 @ T


but wait until 10:00 EDT.

 

[206PiruBlood]

The universities and colleges in Seattle seem to begin this Wednesday. Anyone know if the ones in your area started today?

 

[Evo]

8,224

 

[Astronuc]

10:14 edt 8248

 

[micromass]

8305

 

[Fredrik]

Why do we have so many guests? Compare these numbers from roughly five minutes ago:

Physics Forums: 176 members and 7968 guests
JREF: 158 members and 255 guests

JREF is the James Randi educational foundation.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Why do we have so many guests? Compare these numbers from roughly five minutes ago:

People desire quality, PF has quality, people come.

 

[Evo]

There is a lot of valuable information here.

Once in a while a member will register just to Pm me and thank me for posts I made 3 years ago that solved the problem they were googling for. That's always a nice feeling.

 

[rhody]

Friendly bets on when we will reach 10K ?

I say Thanksgiving 2011, November 22nd, 10:30 pm EST

Rhody...

 

[Astronuc]

Active Users: 8314 (139 members and 8175 guests) and still another hour to go.
It jumped to 8344 within less than 30 s.

Last night's record was made with 190 members active.

More than half are visiting the homework forums.

 

[Evo]

8,418

 

[Astronuc]

8,418

02:39 BST Active Users: 8352 (133 members and 8219 guests)

02:39 BST Active Users: 8372 (136 members and 8236 guests)

02:40 BST Active Users: 8405 (139 members and 8266 guests)

02:41 BST Active Users: 8414 (139 members and 8275 guests)
jumped to 8418 shortly thereafter

There could be a second peak during the next 30 min.

 

[rhody]

Remember Roy Scheider's famous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gciFoEbOA8" in the movie Jaws ? "You are going to need a bigger boat", does that gradually increasing site traffic mean PF needs a bigger boat, more and faster hardware to deal with the load ? Greg ?

Rhody...

 

[micromass]

8434!

 

[micromass]

8479!

 

[micromass]

8600!

 

[Astronuc]

Active Users: 8612 (155 members and 8457 guests) and it could still bump higher.
like
Active Users: 8637 (152 members and 8485 guests)
Active Users: 8655 (152 members and 8503 guests)

 

[micromass]

8660

edit: 8661

 

[Astronuc]

8660

edit: 8661

Active Users: 8661 (149 members and 8512 guests)

 

[micromass]

8666

 

[Evo]

8,693

 

[Astronuc]

8,693

My browser started hanging up and the pages wouldn't load.

 

[206PiruBlood]

That is almost 400 more than yesterday's record of 8305.

 

[lisab]

That is almost 400 more than yesterday's record of 8305.

That makes the question of when we hit 10,000 very interesting! I suspect most of this surge is because of the new fall quarter, and it won't be sustained too long. Maybe it will ebb a bit after the first midterms...?

 

[206PiruBlood]

That makes the question of when we hit 10,000 very interesting! I suspect most of this surge is because of the new fall quarter, and it won't be sustained too long. Maybe it will ebb a bit after the first midterms...?

That's kind of what I was thinking. The University of Washington and many of the community colleges in the area don't start until Wednesday so we'll perhaps see new records all week!

 

[Astronuc]

That's kind of what I was thinking. The University of Washington and many of the community colleges in the area don't start until Wednesday so we'll perhaps see new records all week!

I found numerous guests from universities across the US, and many across Canada. We also get a morning surge from Asia, particularly Pakistan and India.

Last week we were getting a peak around 6:30-7:00 pm PDT/9:30-10:00 EDT, but now we get a second peak between 7:00-7:45 PDT/10:00-10:45 EDT. The peak period may be broadening.

 

[rhody]

This is fun to watch and while our quality is spreading in a natural "academic" way, may I suggest the following:

An e-mail with a brief history and current ranking of the benefits of our wonderful site addressed to the President and Academic Dean of the following institutions:

All US Ivy League Institutions:

The top 10 colleges by rank in China, India, Pakistan, Austrialia, New Zealand, Great Britain, etc... you get the idea.

As a test case, just start with US Ivy League colleges.

Good idea ? Am I crazy ? Too idealistic ? No benefit to be gained by addressing the President, Academic Dean ?

Rhody...

 

[Astronuc]

Interestingly, we seem to be approaching 8K early in the evening, and it would be interseting to see if we break the current record, or even exceed 9K, this evening.