Most users online? 417??

[steve-in-kville]

Most users ever online was 417 on Sat Jan 11, 2020 3:54 am.

At 4 in the morning??

[Josh]

Russian bots

[temporal1]

and, i think, global viewers.
MD had several registered members in Europe, Australia, Asia, one was in Moscow .. many more read than are registered. Ireland/U.K.

some said they used the forum to practice English.
i have no idea how many authentic readers vs bots.

some 3rd shift workers, passing the time at work.

MD had an active late-night, and, late-late night following. i enjoyed it.
i sleep better now, tho.

for a time, one could almost set his clock by who was posting.
weekends would bring the young’ns.

there were a couple of posters who would read+post getting ready for work - Country Boy, Mr Jim.
Wayne would post as he watched the sun rise in Maine.

late Saturday nights were for sermon-writing.

“Study: Optimal Time To Prepare Sermon Is 11:00 Saturday Night”
https://babylonbee.com/news/study-optim ... rday-night

U.S.—According to a new LifeWay Research study, the best time to prepare a sermon for Sunday morning is 11 p.m. the night before delivering it.

“Our extensive research found that preparing a sermon anytime before the last possible hour results in poorly thought-out and convoluted messages,” a LifeWay representative said. “Ideally, pastors will hold off until that magical time between 11 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday. That’s when the Spirit really moves upon a sermon transcript, according to our findings.”

The study found that sermons hurriedly thrown together at the very end of the week were clearer, more concise, and more effective at reaching their audience than sermons that had been extensively researched and outlined days before the Sunday morning deadline.

“It seems that procrastinating until you are frantically reaching for any and every remotely relevant illustration, biblical reference, or video clip results in a solid, biblical sermon,” the rep added. “So be sure to take advantage of the ‘golden hour’ of sermon prep, for the good of your congregation.”

At publishing time, LifeWay had also revealed that it had “compelling evidence” that sermons still being thrown together minutes before the service may be the most effective of all.

.. yes, Jeremy, the last one’s for you. fun times.

[steve-in-kville]

We're gonna break this record this weekend. I can feel it.

[Robert]

Russian bots

Yup. I think they are trying out how to get Szdfan to vote for Trump in 2020.

I send a good bit of time behind scenes removing them. Often, more time doing that then posting. Our two step registration does a good job of filtering out the unwanted. Sorry for the inconvenience of those real people registering, but it has helped keep out the spam and garbage.

[steve-in-kville]

Does the system slow down when lots of users are logged in? Or is that a thing of the past?

[Robert]

Does the system slow down when lots of users are logged in? Or is that a thing of the past?

I suspect it would take thousands to slow it down. I am running it from Bluehost which is a pretty major hosting firm. I am sure their servers can handle much more than we throw at them.

[steve-in-kville]

I am sure their servers can handle much more than we throw at them.

Never know. There's a lot of Mennonites out there.

[steve-in-kville]

Either we're a lot more searchable or the Russian bots are multiplying. Typically we have around 30 - 50 users during the day. But I noticed in the last week or so we're above 100... and we spiked to over 200 a little bit ago.

Ideas?

[Pelerin]

Either we're a lot more searchable or the Russian bots are multiplying. Typically we have around 30 - 50 users during the day. But I noticed in the last week or so we're above 100... and we spiked to over 200 a little bit ago.

Ideas?

AI crawlers trolling the web to vacuum up raw data to feed their growing models? Good work everyone, we’re making the robo-future more Anabaptist. (Although I hope some of the stuff that goes on here doesn’t make it in…)