Record to be broken?

[lexus]

Most users ever online was 5,890, 01-10-2006 at 01:56 PM.

Do you think it will go up today?

[Scarlet Fever]

i won't be able to help, sadly. The keynote is on at 1 AM here, and I have a physics exam tomorrow :(

maybe i'll leave a MR page open :)

[liketom]

not sure but i'd say macworld alaways gets more - that and certain special events

[lexus]

not sure but i'd say macworld alaways gets more - that and certain special events

But many people will be tuning in to see what is new with the iphone.

[Pants Dragon]

We're at 2140 already and nothing has actually happened yet.

[rdowns]

With all the hype and interest arounnd the iPhone, that record will be shattered.

[samh004]

i won't be able to help, sadly. The keynote is on at 1 AM here, and I have a physics exam tomorrow :(

maybe i'll leave a MR page open :)

It's on at 1AM here, which much be at least 3AM in Melbourne.

[lexus]

We're at 2140 already and nothing has actually happened yet.
It is less than that now

[Knox]

We rarely even get close to the record until the front page is restored to normal, so hold on to your hats (in a bit...)

[MacNut]

Record just broke.

[~Shard~]

Cool, it's fun breaking records! It reflects great on MacRumors though as being a place where more and more people want to come to for their latest Mac news in cases like this. :cool:

[psycoswimmer]

Record just broke.

Yup.

http://i12.tinypic.com/62yg5cl.jpg

[MacNut]

Im getting 404 errors left and right and I can't edit posts.

[Doctor Q]

Yup. 6,419 users is now the high-water mark.

The people from Guinness will need signed statements from each of us to verify that it's a MacRumors world record.

[mattscott306]

Im getting 404 errors left and right and I can't edit posts.

It's running slower than usual but I haven't had any errors.

[MacNut]

So why the big records today when there really wasn't any surprise news.

[~Shard~]

So why the big records today when there really wasn't any surprise news.

Because there's always no end of people who thoroughly enjoy bitching about the lack of "any surprise news". :p ;) :cool:

[PlaceofDis]

i'd say we learned a lot more about Leopard, certainties perhaps, but answered some questions too. good keynote imo.

and its awesome to see the record broken! hopefully it'll keep being broken come events.

[mattscott306]

I'd be interested in seeing how other mac related sites, like appleinsider, did today.

[Knox]

So why the big records today when there really wasn't any surprise news.

Nothing really to do with what was announced I believe - just that we had a better setup this time so more people could get online. I'm sure on previous occasions the record would have been set much higher if the capacity was there. We're slowing working out the bottlenecks :)

[Peace]

Congrats on breaking the record so seamless and flawlessly!!

Good Job MacRumors.

[liketom]

well knock me sideways :eek: record broke well done macrumors

i'm getting server errors all over the shop mind

[Aniej]

Congratulations to all who took part in the forums yesterday following WWDC 2007. You set a new record for the most users we have ever had online in the forum's history!

The new record as of 6-11-07 at 3:38 PM is 6,419 users online.

[Fearless Leader]

nice, congrats guys. Go slam those servers.

[samh004]

Good job everyone, it would have been 6,420, but I was asleep. Sorry.

[samh004]

I'm still getting errors, hours afterwards, in fact I just got one while trying to reply. Must be still recovering, sort of like a hangover.

Warning: connect() [function.connect]: Can't connect to 64.62.176.240:11211, Unknown error (0) in /includes/class_datastore.php on line 285

Fatal error: Unable to connect to memcache server in /includes/class_datastore.php on line 287

[Scarlet Fever]

Good job everyone, it would have been 6,420, but I was asleep. Sorry.

thats no excuse! I left a MR page open while i was asleep.

Let's see how much we can break that by during MacWorld :D

[Scarlet Fever]

I'm still getting errors, hours afterwards, in fact I just got one while trying to reply. Must be still recovering, sort of like a hangover.

when i read that, i pictured Arn in his server room, partying, sharing drinks with the servers. "One for me, one for you" :p

[gavd]

thats no excuse! I left a MR page open while i was asleep.

Let's see how much we can break that by during MacWorld :D

So it was really only 6,418 users online then! ;)

[mrkramer]

So it was really only 6,418 users online then! ;)

That may have been when I was testing out Camino, Safari 3 and Firefox, so I don't know if it counted me 3 times.

[Cassie]

Yup.

http://i12.tinypic.com/62yg5cl.jpg

Ah, I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3 when that happened.:( Wish I could've been on that list. Oh well, there's always Macworld!:)