1644 users online!

[Morrus]

Right now, there are 1647 users online - on a Sunday night! I have a feeling that this server upgrade means that this site is going to start getting much busier. Hold on to your hats!

 

[EricNoah]

Do you recall one time when the number just got bigger and bigger ... and it turned out there was some flaw with the software? I wonder if it's something like that, where it's not subtracting people who leave...

 

[EricNoah]

I just refreshed the forums about 10 times and saw the number of "guests" increase by about 10. Not saying I caused it ... but it does seem odd!

 

[Truth Seeker]

Right now, there are 1647 users online - on a Sunday night! I have a feeling that this server upgrade means that this site is going to start getting much busier. Hold on to your hats!

*ahem* 1987...and counting

 

[Morrus]

Well, let's wait to see if it goes down again. Theoretically, it should reduce considerably overnight. It may just be people checking out the new server, or it may be a bug.

 

[Morrus]

Aha... I'm glad to say I just saw it go down a little. So, hopefully, everything is working correctly.

 

[Fate Lawson]

Looks like a bug to me. Simply add up the number of folks viewing each individual forum and you'll see that the real number is closer to 750 or so.....much closer to usual Sunday evening traffic.

 

[Morrus]

Looks like a bug to me. Simply add up the number of folks viewing each individual forum and you'll see that the real number is closer to 750 or so.....much closer to usual Sunday evening traffic.

It counts the entire site, not just the forums (has done for about a year now). The news page is run off vB, too. The redesign of the file structure also means that more pages are now within the counting ability of the server, whereas there were many parts of EN World which were "uncountable" due to the really weird way we had everything organised.

Eventually, the reviews pages will be integrated also, and that will be included in the count.

For those with access to "Who's Online?", you can see where people are, even if they're not in a forum.

 

[Thomas Heretic]

It looks to be mostly right. vBulletin has never counted guests well, but over all it isn't bad.

 

[BSF]

I saw it sitting at 1680 as I first hit it, 1644 when I logged back in a couple of minutes later.