OcUK forums quieter these days?

lemonkettaz · 21 Aug 2006 at 23:59

bringing the system down.

am sure they can handle more than 895 uses signed in at once, i hope

Quantic · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:00

Spie said:
Not when it's still on the way up though.

IMO it reached it's peak a while ago. But the forum wouldn't be the forum without opinions so I glady accept yours.

_PD_ · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:01

seek said:
What would that achieve, other than making the place slow as ****?

Not a lot. We'd maybe get 1,200 visitors or something, the site would take an age to load, but we'd set a new record, and could all look back on that total at the bottom of the page with a warm feeling inside!

Whats the point of swimming the channel? Or setting any other record?

Actually it's mainly because I'm bored.

PinkFloyd · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:01

Cobra said:
Would I get permabanned for trying to organise a mass forum visit in November this year? If we just tried to get all members to remember to visit at a certain time on a certain day?

Why do we have to wait until November?

lemonkettaz · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:01

how can anyone say its quiet.

post a thread and someone will reply within 5mins if its important. probably less time.

ive never been on a forum like this. this is the best forum i know of.

Quantic · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:04

lemonkettaz said:
how can anyone say its quiet.

post a thread and someone will reply within 5mins if its important. probably less time.

ive never been on a forum like this. this is the best forum i know of.

No-one is saying it is quiet at all. This is a very busy forum with a lot of active users. We are saying it is QUIETER. In relation to how it used to be this forum is a lot less busy. (In some people's opinions that is).

_PD_ · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:04

PinkFloyd said:
Why do we have to wait until November?

We don't... But as November seems to be the busiest time (from looking on other forums too), I'd guess then would be the best bet!
See, if we did it next week, it might not work, and everyone would be too peeved off if we tried again a couple of months later!

EDIT: And I still swear it isn't quieter!!!

lemonkettaz · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:05

looks like you joined relatively the same time as me...

cant remember it being any better busier.

it will be the summer effect, wait til you freeze your balls off again and never see daylight, OCUK will be the desert island

Van Hellseek · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:06

random fact - ocuk is 175 places behind slashdot (out of the nets busiest forums)

_PD_ · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:11

Oh yeah, where is that forum league table site again?

We should get stompin'!

Yewen · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:16

OcUK prunes posts, so that is not always very good to rely on.

Anyway, its summer, more people are out and about, the hardware side of things is ALWAYS lower in the summer than winter.

When people are stuck indoors on rainy days it picks up, as does the level of posting in the winter.

People have lives off the forums, they are most certainly not any worse than your Sep 2005 signup date Quantic; can not see how you can compare a summer to winter on the internet, especially when you have not been on OcUK for a summer before.

Werewolf · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:22

Yewen said:
OcUK prunes posts, so that is not always very good to rely on.

Yup, i remember watching that stat site and laughing at the way we kept going up and down along the 500k post mark every single week as it was pruned and built back up again

_PD_ · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:22

? He's been on 12 months! Surely that constitutes a complete cycle through the seasons...

I personally have only been signed up since December, but have been reading the forums well over 2 years.

Only started posting here when my regular forum began to dry up.

Amp34 · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:23

Yewen said:
People have lives off the forums, ...

OMGWTFBBQ!!! There is an outside???

*Dies*

On a different note Spie as your on here how much does it actually cost to host this forum and what machines and memory does it use?

Quantic · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:24

Yewen said:
OcUK prunes posts, so that is not always very good to rely on.

Anyway, its summer, more people are out and about, the hardware side of things is ALWAYS lower in the summer than winter.

When people are stuck indoors on rainy days it picks up, as does the level of posting in the winter.

People have lives off the forums, they are most certainly not any worse than your Sep 2005 signup date Quantic; can not see how you can compare a summer to winter on the internet, especially when you have not been on OcUK for a summer before.

I've actually been a member on the forum longer than you Yewen. This account was indeed created in 2005 but I had an account dating back to October 2003 (maybe earlier) which for personal reasons I requested deleted. So please don't presume.

Van Hellseek · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:27

Amp34 said:
On a different note Spie as your on here how much does it actually cost to host this forum and what machines and memory does it use?

I vaguely remember someone saying something in the region of £17'000 last time this was brought up. But my memory sucks, so thats probably way off tbh.

Yewen · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:32

Quantic said:
I've actually been a member on the forum longer than you Yewen. This account was indeed created in 2005 but I had an account dating back to October 2003 (maybe earlier) which for personal reasons I requested deleted. So please don't presume.

Never knew, I have been on for longer than my Yewen sign up date as I was pre-nuke but then drifted away.

You can only go by what you have seen on the forums unfortunately.

Zefan · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:33

I'd guess it's because of the recent clampdown on spam and quick fire posting in GD.

Quantic · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:34

Yewen said:
Never knew, I have been on for longer than my Yewen sign up date as I was pre-nuke but then drifted away.

You can only go by what you have seen on the forums unfortunately.

Fair dos mate. I wasn't pre-nuke, I arrived just after and been stuck ever since.

Stellios · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:35

Yewen said:
Never knew, I have been on for longer than my Yewen sign up date as I was pre-nuke but then drifted away.

You can only go by what you have seen on the forums unfortunately.

O/T

Yewen...........Don............when'd that happen :eek:

Congrats anyways mate.