'Most users ever online' not accurate?

[bark]

"Most users ever online was 18324 Thu Jan 02, 2025 1:30 am"

Did bots get mistaken for users again? Or did 18k+ people really pop on around 1:30am

[Wired]

That is a terrifying amount of crawlers o_o

[Lex.]

Oh I just saw that while accidentally scrolling to the bottom of the forum page is that?? did that happen before? Is it accurate? Seems unlikely

[softpaw]

I just had the site be super laggy for the past ~10 minutes so I scrolled down and saw this and was super confused o_o it cannot be real, the previous record was like 6k active users like seven or more years ago. No clue how this could have happened though

[fever]

that is so hilarious
forget dec 18 hype january second is where its at

[Lostlovebirdz]

This happened last April and according to Nick it was a glitch with the bots.

[the real colette]

spooky. ik this is an old thread, but hey im a bored girl at 7:52 PM!

But seriously, Jan 2 is where its atttt! Dec 18 is nowhere near that hype