c/10 spaceship beat Gemini's record

[codeholic]

Most users ever online was 442 on 7 minutes ago

Ironically, both incidents were caused by newcomers in the community.

[dvgrn]

Interesting! Did a news item about the copperhead spaceship show up somewhere very popular, just recently?

I must be badly out of date, since I'm clearly not paying attention to whatever-it-is. Can we maybe get a few hundred more people interested in running apgsearch, by mentioning Catagolue pointedly enough?

[codeholic]

I noticed this.

EDIT: Probably Nathaniel has got more information about sources people come from.

[tod222]

Interesting! Did a news item about the copperhead spaceship show up somewhere very popular, just recently?

Yes, it got at least as high as number 8 on the front page of Hacker News. HN drives traffic the way Slashdot used to.

Direct link to HN discussion.

[Alexey_Nigin]

I have just made an account on Hacker News and upvoted both entries.

I encourage you to do the same thing. It only takes a few minutes.

[dvgrn]

Interesting! Did a news item about the copperhead spaceship show up somewhere very popular, just recently?

Yes, it got at least as high as number 8 on the front page of Hacker News. HN drives traffic the way Slashdot used to.

Direct link to HN discussion.

Thanks. It's nice that Catagolue got a mention in the comments. I suppose the next major discovery or milestone might merit a dedicated blog entry -- might attract a little more attention (and CPU cycles). Come to think of it, a similar article (codeholic's, about the pufferfish) caused a similar spike in interest in Catagolue a year ago.

It was also really good to see Chris Rowett's LifeViewer get a well-deserved compliment in passing:

That's an amazingly nice forum feature.

[muzik]

I also posted about the discovery in the Conway's Life subreddit, which may have also contributed to this.

[M. I. Wright]

No, it didn't. At least not by a significant amount - there are less than a hundred people subscribed to the subreddit, and the traffic stats page, which I've made public (as moderator), shows that it usually gets less than half that many pageviews per day.

[Goldtiger997]

Well Sir Robin has beaten this record considerably!:

Most users ever online was 991 on Today, 5:03 pm

They most likely heard about it on Hacker News.

[Majestas32]

It's weird being almost exactly 2 years...

[toroidalet]

Yesterday, the record was beaten again, with 2038 users online at once. Does anyone know why?

[Moosey]

Yesterday, the record was beaten again, with 2038 users online at once. Does anyone know why?

Obviously it's because of that new c/9 spaceship that was discovered a couple days ago.

Joking aside, no.

[Hunting]

Yesterday, the record was beaten again, with 2038 users online at once. Does anyone know why?

Obviously it's because of that new c/9 spaceship that was discovered a couple days ago.

Joking aside, no.

Likely an attack.

[yujh]

Yesterday, the record was beaten again, with 2038 users online at once. Does anyone know why?

Obviously it's because of that new c/9 spaceship that was discovered a couple days ago.

Joking aside, no.

Likely an attack.

Likely(?) associated to ENORMOUS_NAME

[Hunting]

Obviously it's because of that new c/9 spaceship that was discovered a couple days ago.

Joking aside, no.

Likely an attack.

Likely(?) associated to ENORMOUS_NAME

How? ENORMOUS_NAME created a puppet army to celebrate his non-discovery?

[yujh]

Likely an attack.

Likely(?) associated to ENORMOUS_NAME

How? ENORMOUS_NAME created a puppet army to celebrate his non-discovery?

AAAAAA_AAAAA(caps lock)

Joined:August 9th, 2020, 6:39 amLast active:August 9th, 2020, 7:19 am

Joined:August 10th, 2020, 6:39 amLast active:August 10th, 2020, 7:30 am

It can be made by one person/or a group of person?

Edit: I noticed sth here https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:192817

Donna if related

[Saka]

AAAAAA_AAAAA(caps lock)

Joined:August 9th, 2020, 6:39 amLast active:August 9th, 2020, 7:19 am

Joined:August 10th, 2020, 6:39 amLast active:August 10th, 2020, 7:30 am

It can be made by one person/or a group of person?

Edit: I noticed sth here https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:192817

Donna if related

Hmm, not sure what you're saying here. I see no user named "AAAAAA_AAAAA", I doubt Mr. Enormous would create thousands of accounts / open conwaylife.com on a thousand or so different computers. I don't see anything suspicious in the join dates of the new accounts either.

I don't think it's related to the Subnautica thing at all. In that case it was a user making a lot of (helpful) edits to link a lot of pages to the French wiki of Subnautica. Plus, that would only take one account doing a lot of things, not two thousand accounts. (I am aware though that the "most users online" counts guests)

Perhaps something happened somewhere in the vast fibers of the Interspace..? It's a big jump from a record of 442 users to a record of 2038, especially with seemingly nothing too major happening.

[Moosey]

<s>perhaps we'll know what happened when zdr returns</s>

[Saka]

<s>perhaps we'll know what happened when zdr returns</s>

Oooh, perhaps he will have invented a time travel machine for conwaylife.com forums! That's why there are so many people!

[toroidalet]

We had 2846 users 3 hours ago. Again, there doesn't seem to be any cause. It seems too large to be normal (non-breakthrough) activity, but too small to be an attack.

[cvojan]

It's 2909 now?

[ENORMOUS_NAME]

Bruh I have one computer guys

I’m not trying to create a puppet army or attacking the webpage