1500 people here?? [Archive]

Josey

January 5th, 2007, 06:29 PM

I started using ubuntu a few months ago and if I remember right there were usually around 100 people on the forums but now there are around 1500 viewing!!?!

Has ubuntu really took off in the last few months or what?

I ditched windows completely for ubuntu and can understand why so many people are using it now but wow... that's a huge increase.

Artificial Intelligence

January 5th, 2007, 06:31 PM

Currently Active Users: 3570 (644 members and 2926 guests)

Most users ever online was 5,124, November 27th, 2006 at 10:05 PM.

Josey

January 5th, 2007, 06:35 PM

WOW!!

Soon game developers are going to take this community seriously I rekon. :)
It's people like you that made this forum what it is AI.
kudos.

Lord Illidan

January 5th, 2007, 06:36 PM

Currently Active Users: 3570 (644 members and 2926 guests)

Most users ever online was 5,124, November 27th, 2006 at 10:05 PM.

Boy, I remember that day...forums were friggin slow.

loell

January 5th, 2007, 06:49 PM

yeah i agree, ubuntuforums is very good place for the developers to get instant feedbacks and suggestions. it probably is the busiest forum in the linux and foss realm.

rowanparker

January 5th, 2007, 07:12 PM

I started using ubuntu a few months ago and if I remember right there were usually around 100 people on the forums

I think there were a few more than that ;)

Frak

January 5th, 2007, 07:22 PM

Currently Active Users: 3570 (644 members and 2926 guests)

Most users ever online was 5,124, November 27th, 2006 at 10:05 PM.
I remember that, I actually fixed GRUB so I could boot into windows, and the forums took FOREVER to load, so I yelled and cursed because Microsoft shouldn't sell software at such a high price if its this buggy, yelled and cursed more, kicked tower, yelled and cursed even more, said more bad things about Microsoft, but yeah, that was a great day for the forums!

taurus

January 5th, 2007, 07:29 PM

And no pushing or cutting in line now!!!

Ex-XP

January 5th, 2007, 07:33 PM

Currently Active Users: 3570 (644 members and 2926 guests)

Most users ever online was 5,124, November 27th, 2006 at 10:05 PM.

This place just plain ROCKS, as does Ubuntu :cool:

Lord Illidan

January 5th, 2007, 07:34 PM

I remember that, I actually fixed GRUB so I could boot into windows, and the forums took FOREVER to load, so I yelled and cursed because Microsoft shouldn't sell software at such a high price if its this buggy, yelled and cursed more, kicked tower, yelled and cursed even more, said more bad things about Microsoft, but yeah, that was a great day for the forums!

I would have sued there and then for "denial of service"

Lord Illidan

January 5th, 2007, 07:36 PM

My god...

Threads: 324,305, Posts: 1,964,454, Members: 218,040
almost 2 million posts!!

rowanparker

January 5th, 2007, 07:37 PM

My god...

Threads: 324,305, Posts: 1,964,454, Members: 218,040
almost 2 million posts!!
Yeah, I noticed that.

I'd love to know how big the forum backups are. (they do have backups right?)

taurus

January 5th, 2007, 07:44 PM

Yeah, I noticed that.

I'd love to know how big the forum backups are. (they do have backups right?)

Backups! We don't need no stinkin' backups... :twisted:

(Just kidding... I am sure one of the admins does a backup every night.)

Engnome

January 5th, 2007, 07:55 PM

Backups! We don't need no stinkin' backups... :twisted:

(Just kidding... I am sure one of the admins does a backup every night.)

That takes a night to create :twisted:

A friend of mine set up a server where you could host free forums once, people started flooding in and in just a few days he had lots of subforums. His MySQL backup file grew to +100 mb of just text very rapidly!

I can't even begin to imagin how big these forums backups would be...

Frak

January 5th, 2007, 08:01 PM

That takes a night to create :twisted:

A friend of mine set up a server where you could host free forums once, people started flooding in and in just a few days he had lots of subforums. His MySQL backup file grew to +100 mb of just text very rapidly!

I can't even begin to imagin how big these forums backups would be...
It'd probably have to be gigs in size, for all of the mass volume created.

smoker

January 5th, 2007, 08:07 PM

Threads: 324,305, Posts: 1,964,454, Members: 218,040
almost 2 million posts!!
Reply With Quote

hme, is there a prize for the 2.000,000th poster?

:-)

rowanparker

January 5th, 2007, 08:11 PM

hme, is there a prize for the 2.000,000th poster?

:-)
Hope so.

Can an admin possibly let us know of the rough backup size please :)

K.Mandla

January 5th, 2007, 11:22 PM

Can an admin possibly let us know of the rough backup size please :)
Do you mean with or without the Word Association thread? :mrgreen:

Engnome

January 5th, 2007, 11:32 PM

Do you mean with or without the Word Association thread? :mrgreen:

with please. :)

Frak

January 6th, 2007, 12:00 AM

Do you mean with or without the Word Association thread? :mrgreen:
lol, that would take up 2/3 of the space on my forum at least.

rowanparker

January 6th, 2007, 08:13 AM

Do you mean with or without the Word Association thread? :mrgreen:
First with, then without.
Then we can see how big it is :)

ssam

January 6th, 2007, 08:33 AM

Red Herring, a technology business magazine, interviewed Mark Shuttleworth about recent developments in the world of open source and his plans for Ubuntu.

A nice highlight from the interview is:

"Q: What about growth in adoption rates, any kind of numbers that you can give me?
A: We know now that there are probably at least 8 million [Ubuntu] users."

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue26