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A sign of the times

  • 30-04-2010 2:46pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    MostusersrecordApril302010.jpg
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    The Recliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭The Recliner


    mike65 wrote: »
    MostusersrecordApril302010.jpg

    There was a spike around the time it became know of Gerry Ryan's death

    It seems most people first port of call for the inside scoop is still boards


  • #3
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Is that a pink skin?


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Pink/Red I find its quite relaxing.


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    mike65 wrote: »
    Pink/Red I find its quite relaxing.
    Swanky.


  • #6
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    mike65 wrote: »
    Pink/Red I find its quite relaxing.
    *changes skin*

    *changes back to evil*


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  • #7
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    The Recliner wrote: »
    There was a spike around the time it became know of Gerry Ryan's death

    It seems most people first port of call for the inside scoop is still boards


    Yeah boards was around the third search result for Gerry Ryan on google.


    mike65 wrote: »
    Pink/Red I find its quite relaxing.

    Not as good as the Cloud skin....


  • #8
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Cloud skin.... MMMMmmmm

    Its good to see that people know they can get up to the minute news and discussion very quick here.

    First port of call... nice


  • #9
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    The Recliner wrote: »
    There was a spike around the time it became know of Gerry Ryan's death

    It seems most people first port of call for the inside scoop is still boards

    Nah...boards.ie was the 89th place I seen the news. It's everywhere!


  • #10
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Most users ever online was 8,105, Today at 15:16.

    wow


  • #11
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    kinda sad really.

    "lets all rush on to boards to post "RIP gerry" somewhere"

    sigh :rolleyes:


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  • #12
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I found this from 2004 when googling


  • #13
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Rabies wrote: »
    Most users ever online was 8,105, Today at 15:16.

    wow

    We went from serving 40 pages per second to 60 pages per second in about 10 minutes and stayed above 60 pages per second for quite a while. Highest number I saw was 71 point something. :eek:

    Here's the graph of users online that I was looking at:

    112483.png

    Next stop, over 9000. :)


  • #14
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    mike65 wrote: »
    I found this from 2004 when googling

    How times have changed indeed :)


  • #15
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I take it the spike @ 3pm was when the news was broadcast at large

    I wish to congratulate the hamsters; 18 months ago this amount of traffic would have crushed the sites performance.


  • #16
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    mike65 wrote: »
    I found this from 2004 when googling

    :D
    does it ever even drop below this now... :pac:


  • #17
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    :D
    does it ever even drop below this now... :pac:
    Apparently not at 3am, there are 1392 online now.

    If I remember rightly, it gets pretty low at around 5am or so, after most of the UTC people go to sleep and before others wake up.


  • #18
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Interesting round numbers from around 0315.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/
    What's Going On?
    Currently Active Users: 1200 (300 members and 900 guests)
    View Who's Online
    Most users ever online was 8,105, 30-04-2010 at 15:16.


  • #19
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Yeah was initially shocked about G Ryan but it has passed now. Say the posts have dropped off quite considerably in the meantime


  • #20
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Boards.... the real reason for the economic crash. :)



    My work here is done. Again. :)


    DeV.


  • #21
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    kinda sad really.

    "lets all rush on to boards to post "RIP gerry" somewhere"

    sigh :rolleyes:

    no, lets all rush to boards to see if there is substance to the rumors. You will find boards.ie will contain both rumors and links to news stories no matter what the topic.. its the fastest to have information on any major topic sometimes i find. When i was told gerry ryan died, i went to boards to see if there was any substance to the rumors..


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  • #22
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Overheal wrote: »
    I take it the spike @ 3pm was when the news was broadcast at large

    I wish to congratulate the hamsters; 18 months ago this amount of traffic would have crushed the sites performance.
    Indeed, boards and RTE were pretty much the only two Irish "media" websites which didn't slow to a complete crawl at the time. And RTE.ie had no information on it, which is probably why no-one was visiting it.


  • #23
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Heard Dempsey on Today FM this morning. Mentioned both Facebook and Twitter but left us out in terms of the breaking news.
    Which as another poster said is probably beside the point in what was a terrible tragedy for the family.
    But strange how he didn't mention it all the same.


  • #24
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    snyper wrote: »
    no, lets all rush to boards to see if there is substance to the rumors. You will find boards.ie will contain both rumors and links to news stories no matter what the topic.. its the fastest to have information on any major topic sometimes i find. When i was told gerry ryan died, i went to boards to see if there was any substance to the rumors..

    Same.
    I seen the RIP Gerry Ryan group appear on Facebook.
    Came to Boards to see if it was a joke. Thread was already in over drive at that point.


  • #25
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Heard Dempsey on Today FM this morning. Mentioned both Facebook and Twitter but left us out in terms of the breaking news.
    Which as another poster said is probably beside the point in what was a terrible tragedy for the family.
    But strange how he didn't mention it all the same.
    I imagine Dempsy has formed an opinion of Boards, and at the least didn't want to give it a nod based on that.


  • #26
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Overheal wrote: »
    I imagine Dempsy has formed an opinion of Boards, and at the least didn't want to give it a nod based on that.
    Agreed but as such he was misrepresenting the story as such


  • #27
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    From Gerry Ryan's wiki page:
    At 14:30 a member of online forum boards.ie created a thread entitled "Gerry Ryan is dead" [60]. She stated "My uncle who works as an ambulance driver just texted me that Gerry Ryan died, RIP". The original post was ammended by a moderator at 16:07 to read: RTÉ did not officially reveal Ryan's death until 15:30; however some of his colleagues could not wait to reveal the news.


  • #28
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    From Gerry Ryan's wiki page:
    I think that entry is poor. Any of RTE staff I assume would have been under instruction not to release this until cleared to do so given the sensitivity of the story.


  • #29
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    I think that entry is poor. Any of RTE staff I assume would have been under instruction not to release this until cleared to do so given the sensitivity of the story.


    Miriam O'Callaghan tweeted about it before most people even knew about it and well before it was officially announced on RTE. She took the tweet down though shortly after posting it.


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