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Changes done (for tonight). (Well, at least the one that caused a brief outage... others should be less noticeable)



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Lawlight said:
Kerotan said:
We need to ban half the users to ease the load. Can I be the one to decide?

Well, Nintendo fans are the most active here so you know what to do.

Actually 90% of the traffic is lurkers who are not logged in...



Ka-pi96 said:
ioi keeps spilling beer on the servers.

Or some other reason, but I'm just going to assume that's why

What servers? I thought this place was run by a potato from 2006.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

jlauro said:
Lawlight said:

Well, Nintendo fans are the most active here so you know what to do.

Actually 90% of the traffic is lurkers who are not logged in...

Do we know what they’re browsing?



Lawlight said:
jlauro said:

Actually 90% of the traffic is lurkers who are not logged in...

Do we know what they’re browsing?

Random check...  last half hour...

top page http://www.vgchartz.com/game/85353/lego-dimensions/

home page

then some articles like /article/269991/eden-tomorrow-announced-for-playstation-vr/ and  /article/269992/rocket-league-launches-for-switch-november-14/

well, that's vgchartz.com...  forgot gamrconnect...  collecting...



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On gamrconnect
/leaderboard/
/thread.php?id=232576
/thread.php?id=232580
/thread.php?id=232576&page=2
/thread.php?id=232576&page=3

but most of those are lower than the articles.   (remember, was just a random sampling...  )



I used to browse this site back in 2007 and 2008 and only ever really visited the weekly charts and the game database. I'd well believe what talon IOS saying.



jlauro said:

On gamrconnect
/leaderboard/
/thread.php?id=232576
/thread.php?id=232580
/thread.php?id=232576&page=2
/thread.php?id=232576&page=3

but most of those are lower than the articles.   (remember, was just a random sampling...  )

So the articles are still what drives most of the traffic. Interesting. 

The 2 top threads are Nintendo threads on the day after PSX. Not surprising.



I'm surprised /leaderboard/ was so high (but small fraction of the home page traffic). I should run some stats over a day, but it's not so easy for me to separate logged in stats vs not logged in if not in the last half hour...



That is strange about lego-dimensions... I checked the entire day at it's 5% to over 10% of /game/ all day long...

2nd place is /game/118753/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/
with only 2% of the /game/ traffic...