ConwayLife.com

Most users ever online was 442 on 7 minutes ago

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

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I must be badly out of date, since I'm clearly not paying attention to whatever-it-is.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?

I noticed this.

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

dvgrn wrote: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.

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.

tod222 wrote:

dvgrn wrote: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:

aab0 wrote:That's an amazingly nice forum feature.

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

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.

Well Sir Robin has beaten this record considerably!:

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

They most likely heard about it on Hacker News.

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

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

toroidalet wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 6:43 pm

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.

Moosey wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 6:50 pm

toroidalet wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 6:43 pm

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.

Hunting wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 9:38 pm

Moosey wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 6:50 pm

toroidalet wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 6:43 pm

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

yujh wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 9:54 pm

Hunting wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 9:38 pm

Moosey wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 6:50 pm

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?

Hunting wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 9:58 pm

yujh wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 9:54 pm

Hunting wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 9:38 pm

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

yujh wrote: ↑

August 14th, 2020, 10:07 pm

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.

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

Moosey wrote: ↑

August 24th, 2020, 1:39 pm

<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!

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.

It's 2909 now?

Bruh I have one computer guys

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