What happened in 03-10-2003?

[Sprafa]

Most users ever online was 5064, 03-10-2003 at 05:07 PM.

Anyone recalls? What was it, the delay, the hack?

 

[CyberSh33p]

I think its meant to be read euro-style, so it would be october 3rd, which is if I recall correctly the day gabe newell made his post asking for community help telling us about the leak.

 

[Majestic XII]

Yep... the leak. The forums was über slow before it died... man that was fun

We had like 2000 people in IRC too.

 

[Varsity]

Ignore this post.

 

[Maxi]

Yeah, Wasn't that the day that the forums crashed because to many users were browsing it at the same time?

 

[Munro]

Aye that's when Gabe Newell made the infamous "Ever have one of those weeks?" thread on our forums. We got 5064 users on the forums, and then the server exploded :O

 

[Sprafa]

Aye that's when Gabe Newell made the infamous "Ever have one of those weeks?" thread on our forums. We got 5064 users on the forums, and then the server exploded :O

cool, should've been here

 

[The Mullinator]

You wouldn't have been able to get on and post anything anyway. It took like 5 minutes before the server could actually start sending me any page from the forums.

 

[HybridM]

I'll never understand US style dates, they're just not logical. mm/dd/yyyy doesn't flow. With the european (also Australian *cough*) style, it flows well. dd/mm/yyyy easily flows as "dd of the mm, yyyy".

That's quite an impressive number of people browsing at one time, I think I was one of those too, but I was a lurker then, or was I?

edit: yes I was, I think that's what inspired me to sign up actually. Curse opinions.

 

[Shuzer]

I'll never understand US style dates, they're just not logical. mm/dd/yyyy doesn't flow. With the european (also Australian *cough*) style, it flows well. dd/mm/yyyy easily flows as "dd of the mm, yyyy".

That's quite an impressive number of people browsing at one time, I think I was one of those too, but I was a lurker then, or was I?

edit: yes I was, I think that's what inspired me to sign up actually. Curse opinions.

mm/dd/yyyy isn't illogical

Most people here say "April 23rd, 2004," so that, in my eyes, is how mm/dd/yyyy makes sense

 

[HybridM]

Well here, when people read numeric dates they usually keep them numeric, so I guess that's why it makes more sense.

 

[Shuzer]

When you're reading 4-23-2004 though, you're reading in increasing scale, which makes more sense. When using words, m-d-y makes more sense.

This I understand. However, I don't view the mm/dd/yyyy as completely illogical. I suppose it's because I've lived in the states for my entire life, and that's just the way I know it..

Just like I don't view the English System as all that whacky.. I'm so accustomed to it, infact, that the metric system seems alien

Go backwards teaching!

 

[CyberSh33p]

This I understand. However, I don't view the mm/dd/yyyy as completely illogical. I suppose it's because I've lived in the states for my entire life, and that's just the way I know it..

Just like I don't view the English System as all that whacky.. I'm so accustomed to it, infact, that the metric system seems alien

Go backwards teaching!

I'd say the date writing style is really just moot

as for US system s Metric, metric is sooooo much easier.

 

[Hudson]

I remember that day quite well, i was bitching at Tredoslop on MSN about how slow the forums are

 

[Majestic XII]

People, lets get on topic again.

 

[StarMonkey]

That day we banned more people, and closed and moved more threads than ever before

And for the dates thing, generally here we say 23rd April 2004, so 23/4/04 makes more sense (UK)

 

[Majestic XII]

I think i moved about 2 threads that week in the editing forums... That was the hardest week ever!

 

[Axyon]

Heh, that was an interesting time... as said, the boards were at an absolute crawl, and all you could do was watch the number of users on the board rise - people celebrated like mad when it reached 2000, but we never expected it to rise to over 5000.

 

[ferd]

I signed up somewhere in the beginning, and I recall when someone opened a thread in those days (around the time of the leak) that it took 2 mins foor 100 replies.

And i think the serv crashed more then once, 2 times i believe, around the same time

And i bet bet that you have to add up another 2K viewers (not signed up) at that time

 

[Chris D]

Heh, that was an interesting time... as said, the boards were at an absolute crawl, and all you could do was watch the number of users on the board rise - people celebrated like mad when it reached 2000, but we never expected it to rise to over 5000.

I take it our new server will hardly strain?

 

[Axyon]

I take it our new server will hardly strain?

I'm not sure mate, but I'd love to find out

 

[Sulkdodds]

Nothing tests a server like a goog scandal. Let's organise one.

 

[Hot Soup]

I'm sure he means good

But yeah was very hectic .. and irc even more so :x

 

[lonestar]

i remember me, how the irc channel got jammed by people. it would take endless time to count the word "beta" in the irc log file. it was really a mess.

i'm curious, what will be going on in the forums, when hl2 has been released. hehe..

 

[The Mullinator]

i remember me, how the irc channel got jammed by people. it would take endless time to count the word "beta" in the irc log file. it was really a mess.

i'm curious, what will be going on in the forums, when hl2 has been released. hehe..

It will be filled with a whole bunch of newbs asking for cheats, hacks, posting spoilers and slowing the site down. /pessimism

It will be filled with a whole bunch of newbs talking about how godly HL2 is, how it was worth the wait, and how it blows every other game out of the water. /optimism

Take your pick, or mix and match. :cheers:

 

[Sulkdodds]

I think the latter is the lesser of two evils. And yes I did mean 'good', damn it. Oh, the shame.

 

[Hot Soup]

The thing with the irc channel is ... well for the leak we had I think we had the best part of 1000 users if not more around 12 or 13 hundred. Now imagine say even 200 or 300 of them all trying to type at the same time.... AAAAARGH utter chaos, I can only think come launch or some major news from valve it'll explode to the same or even more so


/me hides



And it's day month then year just because americans don't speak english properly

 

[mrchimp]

I remember how on IRC you would type something in then about 5 minutes later it would appear along with about 500 messages from everyone else.

For some very odd reason the forums never slowed down for me, although trying to keep up with threads that gained 30 pages every 5 hours was a bit pointless.