What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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I've always been curious. Is there anyone here who knows?
Most users ever online was 265 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:47 am
Was the forum slashdotted or something?
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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Version 3.94 was released on 16th August 2005:
http://www.purebasic.com/news45.php
Added: Brand a new IDE and 3 Debuggers (!)

Then the massive 4.00 upgrade happened on 8th May 2006:
http://www.purebasic.com/news48.php
Added: Native unicode support
Added: Subsystems support
Added: Unlimited length strings in both ascii and unicode mode
Added: Thread safe commandset and strings

So, it was quite an exciting time! :)
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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I think it could have been a forum bug?!
If any of you native English speakers have any suggestions for the above text, please let me know (via PM). Thanks!
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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Possibly, but I was there at the time and I definitely remember seeing
LOTS of names in the "Who is online" list. Whether they were all real
users, or a bug, is a question maybe only Fred can answer.
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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Sometimes search engine spiders tend to go berzerk. Happened on my forum a few times and each time it set a new online record.
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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Mistrel wrote:
Most users ever online was 265 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:47 am
From my experience most likely bots registering. (but I could be wrong)
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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Those spikes are from search engine bots being misinterpreted as multiple visitors. phpbb2 did not distinguish bots from real visitors.
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Re: What caused the forum usage to spike in 2005?

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It was me!

I created all those accounts, just in case i ever got banned from posting HasselSpam ...
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Num3 wrote:I created all those accounts, just in case i ever got banned from posting HasselSpam ...
Actually believable!
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