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Most users online? 417??

Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:30 am
by steve-in-kville
Most users ever online was 417 on Sat Jan 11, 2020 3:54 am.

At 4 in the morning??

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:38 am
by Josh
Russian bots

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:12 am
by 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. :mrgreen:
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.
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.. yes, Jeremy, the last one’s for you. fun times. 8-)

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:33 am
by steve-in-kville
We're gonna break this record this weekend. I can feel it.

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:07 am
by Robert
Josh wrote:Russian bots
Yup. I think they are trying out how to get Szdfan to vote for Trump in 2020. :shock:

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.

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:31 pm
by steve-in-kville
Does the system slow down when lots of users are logged in? Or is that a thing of the past?

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:04 pm
by Robert
steve-in-kville wrote: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.

Re: Most users online? 417??

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:32 am
by steve-in-kville
Robert wrote:I am sure their servers can handle much more than we throw at them.
Never know. There's a lot of Mennonites out there. :D

Users Online?

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:51 pm
by 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?

Re: Users Online?

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:02 pm
by Pelerin
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:51 pm 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…)