509!!!

Thursday, October 25, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Today's the XP launch and not surprisingly...

The site has gone nuts. 509 people are currently on as I type this.

Personally, I think we should all go back to the good old days where it's a BBS on a phone modem and only 1 person can be on at a time. Why, I remember my BBS got sometimes THIRTY people on it in a single day.
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treetog
Reply #1 Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:55 PM
Yup, Brad, times changes and on the net they change very fast.

MadIce
Reply #2 Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:05 PM
Get off that phone line treetog! There are more people who want to join in.

Lowen
Reply #3 Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:05 PM
The swedish community, Lunarstorm, which i do some freelance work for has 10-15.000 users online at the same time during the evening.

http://www.lunarstorm.se

migellito
Reply #4 Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:21 PM
wow lowen.. that's almost as many as the old isca bbs on telnet. are a lot of them on by phone?

Lowen
Reply #5 Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:03 PM
actually, i think some are.. cause Lunarstorm has their own cellphone net , so the members can check their guestbooks and stuff via their cellphones.

i wasnt sure if you were sarcastic or not... hehe


paxx
Reply #6 Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:47 PM
There is presently 601 people on your swedish website, Lowen. But that gives me an idea, would it not be cool to see how many people are online, in real time? Can that be scripted onto the homepage without sucking too much resources? It could be neat to see.

skinner7892
Reply #7 Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:18 PM
Yep paxx its possible Check for example http://pixtudio.com At the bottom there's a marquee that says how many are in at the same time... Quite nice little feature I must say

Lowen
Reply #8 Friday, October 26, 2001 6:16 AM
paxx: Most ppl in sweden was probably in bed by then Presently there are 15.042 ppl online (noon) The counter you described is how it works at Lunarstorm. How did you think it worked?


paxx
Reply #9 Friday, October 26, 2001 6:38 AM
Lowen, I know it's how it works there, but I was suggesting to place one here, if it's not too demanding on the server, because I know we have bandwidth and server issues at times.

BoXXi
Reply #10 Friday, October 26, 2001 7:17 AM
The new Litestep.net has a function which shows how many are on-line, and even lists their names. I think it's a great idea.

BoXXi
Reply #11 Friday, October 26, 2001 7:19 AM
In fact, now that I think about it, Skinbase has that function too, and so did LotsOfSkins.

craeonics
Reply #12 Friday, October 26, 2001 7:54 AM
It works by keeping track of who loaded a page in the last X minutes. Shouldn't be too difficult to make.

craeonics
Reply #13 Friday, October 26, 2001 7:57 AM
craeonics starts up the brain
They don't even have to make it, seems they already got it (how else can Froggy see how many are online).

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