Mileston: 12701 users! December 19, 2001 9:11 PM   Subscribe

12701 members (164 online) Rock on!
posted by gleuschk to MetaFilter-Related at 9:11 PM (9 comments total)

that's cool.
posted by ColdChef at 9:12 PM on December 19, 2001


does that just mean "logged in"? I never log out.
posted by rebeccablood at 9:18 PM on December 19, 2001


does that just mean "logged in"? I never log out
I believe it counts active users.
posted by riffola at 9:22 PM on December 19, 2001


I was just trying out some quick CF hack. It's checking out many people have hit the site in the past ten minutes. I wonder a) how high it would go mid-day on a moderately busy day and b) how much additional processing it will take up to keep the count going.

If I see a noticeable lag tomorrow afternoon, I'll ax it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:25 PM on December 19, 2001


Yay! I got my pony from 6 months ago! And I'm gonna ride it All Night Long!

Thanks Matt - although I do understand that my request and the actual implementation are completely unrelated.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:17 AM on December 20, 2001


gleuschk: I know you're a mathematician and all, but will you concede that there's something insanely addictive about checking the number of online members and trying to work out some pattern? How would one go about factoring in the several time zones involved? It's approaching 400 right now. It's 18:37 here in GMT Portugal and UK, 13:37 EST, 10:37 PST...so just about everyone is at work, i.e. on MeFi! Will it get better?
I hope Matt never takes the counter away!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:37 AM on December 20, 2001


there's something insanely addictive about checking the number of online members

You realize of course that, if true, this will skew the results. We'll need two figures: # of members actually reading the site, and # of members hitting refresh just to see how many members are reading the site....
posted by mattpfeff at 10:52 AM on December 20, 2001


Oh no!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:22 AM on December 20, 2001


I know you're a mathematician and all, but will you concede that there's something insanely addictive about checking the number

Of course. The only thing worse is checking the site statistics for your blog (if you were the kind of person who obsessively did that, which I'm absolutely not, no way, huh-uh, never, but thanks to the 3 of you who came by yesterday from .mil IPs).

What a nifty toy, Matt.
posted by gleuschk at 12:05 PM on December 20, 2001


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