What caused the peak of 1264 users online in 2004?

[Nicool005]

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?

 

[Monique]

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

 

[enigma]

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.

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[dextercioby]

If heads must fail for us to increase our popularity, then so be it !

Daniel.

 

[jtbell]

My first guess, before reading the followup postings, was that it must have been final exam week at a lot of colleges and universities.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I think the last record was when we got slashdotted. So if anyone is on slashdot, give us a shoutout

 

[Nicool005]

My first guess, before reading the followup postings, was that it must have been final exam week at a lot of colleges and universities.

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

Beheading, eh? that's unpleasant


That's cool that google helps PF traffic these days

 

[Gokul43201]

I think the last record was when we got slashdotted.

When ? I'd like to see that.