Most users ever online was 1,052, 10-18-2006 at 01:40 PM.

**Compass** · 10 Feb 2007, 06:44 PM

This stat appears on the forum index page under Currently Active Users. It got me curious.

Does it look at unique IPs? Like, over the course of sixty seconds or something? Even if it was over five or ten minutes, that still sounds like a lot to me -- over 1000 different people -- when we have, what, 100 or less regular posters? Do that many guests visit the site? Perhaps google was turning up one of our threads for a popular game that was released around that time?

**Yoshi** · 10 Feb 2007, 07:02 PM

~20 out of 1,000 is not a good useful ratio.

**Drewbacca** · 10 Feb 2007, 07:31 PM

There's a ridiculous amount of lurkers on these forums for whatever reason (me).

**Rumpy** · 10 Feb 2007, 10:30 PM

and google bots and shit.

**Glitch** · 10 Feb 2007, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew

(me).

Try harder.

**Advocate** · 10 Feb 2007, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by Giltc'h of Outworld

Try harder.

Sadly I think he is.

**mollipen** · 11 Feb 2007, 12:24 AM

It's bots, more than likely. My forum has a "biggest day" of 197 people at once, and no way did we ever have ever close to that many active people at one time.

**Compass** · 11 Feb 2007, 01:20 AM

Ah, I never realized bots could be such a huge factor. Kinda makes that stat meaningless then...

**Nick** · 11 Feb 2007, 08:05 AM

We get closer to 300 registered users a day, not 100, and there are a lot more lurkers than you think. Just yesterday, I was on Xbox Live and someone asked me if the "TNL" in my gamertag referred to this site. The most registered users I ever saw on at once was close to 100 back in May when the Nintendo press conference was happening.

But, yeah, when the 1000 users were on, 80% were bots.