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    What happened on January 28 2021 to result in over 3000 users online?

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    just curious lol. is it a glitch? was that when the site hit 1m pageviews? some neopets-related thing that i forgot/never learned about?

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    Also curious about this

    I don't know if it's related to the flash support ending or any other issue

    Ok sorry though it was only neopets related lol








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    I think it might have been the attack tried on ck to access the backend, when we all were advised on changing our usernames? Not exactly sure but i think that might have been the 'event'.

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    It's nothing as controversial or harrowing as previously suggested. A couple of (you need an account to see links) services hosted in China were slamming our site with requests that day. While normally this wouldn't be noticeable to a website, these programs were hot garbage, and were attempting to index as much of the forum as they could, as fast as possible. We shut them out, and that was the end of it! Unfortunately, we were unable to roll back that particular analytic to the number previously achieved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bat View Post
    It's nothing as controversial or harrowing as previously suggested. A couple of (you need an account to see links) services hosted in China were slamming our site with requests that day. While normally this wouldn't be noticeable to a website, these programs were hot garbage, and were attempting to index as much of the forum as they could, as fast as possible. We shut them out, and that was the end of it! Unfortunately, we were unable to roll back that particular analytic to the number previously achieved.
    That's honestly super interesting! Thanks for sharing!


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    Well clearly we just need some positive and exciting and interesting reason to attract 3210 (what a satisfying number!) on at the same time so we have a more interesting story to tell!


    (But honestly, still an interesting story!)



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    Quote Originally Posted by kittyray View Post
    Well clearly we just need some positive and exciting and interesting reason to attract 3210 (what a satisfying number!) on at the same time so we have a more interesting story to tell!


    (But honestly, still an interesting story!)
    It would've been nice if it were 3,209 unique visitors, but it was actually 3,209 simultaneous socket connections from two separate IPs. They were going full throttle with indexing pages, but the sheer number of requests was too much for vBulletin to differentiate. It isn't a particularly amazing situation. Just bad programming from some cruddy search engines.

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    Oh, ouch.

    Still say Would be fun to have a more interesting story to tell. How to attract that many? Lord if I know. Always thought it was funny that it was the day before we reached 10k in the counting thread because then we could have imagined it was just a giant audience for the conclusion to a nearly decade-long journey!



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