The Hive's Highest Peak

[Knight of Arsford]

Most users ever online was 7,862, 02-12-2015 at 05:04 AM.

I wanted to ask this for quite some time now, what in the world happened during February 12 that 7,862 users and guests were in the site at the same time? The last "peak" the Hive had was back in 2012 where around 4k were online.

What happened? And when might it happen again?

 

[Daffa]

Let's say many people are downloading our resources center. While the others are buzzing bees who's always around around then.

It's sort of random, but I think it's usually revolves with major development releases and such.

 

[Ralle]

I think it's better to look at what users are online. These 5000 "users" are most likely 90% bots.

 

[Sclammerz]

What do you mean "bots"?

Edit: 1000th posts!!

 

[Daffa]

Oh yeah, I remember. There are bots around trying to register and spam the whole forum, I remember encountering some of these.

 

[Chaosy]

Seems like bullshit to me O-o

 

[fladdermasken]

Oh yeah, I remember. There are bots around trying to register and spam the whole forum, I remember encountering some of these.

Probably spider bots that make up the majority of that number, though. They aren't bad. They pretty much determine the ranking for web pages within search results. Basically they are search engine explorer bots for exploring content, organization and linking. Spam bots and ad bots are the malicious kind and we deal with them on a regular basis, but we rarely get more than 5 on a good week.

 

[Ralle]

Probably spider bots that make up the majority of that number, though. They aren't bad. They pretty much determine the ranking for web pages within search results. Basically they are search engine explorer bots for exploring content, organization and linking. Spam bots and ad bots are the malicious kind and we deal with them on a regular basis, but we rarely get more than 5 on a good week.

That

 

[Embraced]

Wow, bot... oh well at least i know one of those online are human and that's me !

 

[fladdermasken]

Wow, bot... oh well at least i know one of those online are human and that's me !

Woo! This will be continued here.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...ing-over-teh-world-thread-263972/#post2666984

 

[WhiteFang]

Oh yeah, I remember. There are bots around trying to register and spam the whole forum, I remember encountering some of these.

I didn't even know there are bots..

I'm not exactly sure what happened,its kinda random,like Daffa said

 

[BlackEnvyX]

Let's try and make the next highest peak soon, and hopefully with more people than bots.

 

[Velmarshal]

Let's try and make the next highest peak soon, and hopefully with more people than bots.

In this day and age? Not likely.