Why are there so many people on fedora forums lately

[hephasteus]

Has anyone else noticed that theres always like 5000 or more people on here lately?

[glennzo]

Because the Linux movement continues to build. One by one, people are beginning to see the light.

[lauwers]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Because the Linux movement continues to build. One by one, people are beginning to see the light.

To see the Iinux light that was even before Fedora exist.
It was Red hat at that time .
The slogan in that days in my country was ¨DO NOT BE AFRAID FOR THE MAN WEARING A RED HAT¨
In stone age when linux nearly do not even have a GUI

Originally Posted by hephasteus

Has anyone else noticed that theres always like 5000 or more people on here lately?

why there's lots here?.. cause there all bored an ther newspapers dont provide enough entertainment so they come here

[bob]

I've often thought that we're picking up on more than just the FedoraForum stats:

Currently Active Users: 5838 (149 members and 5689 guests) Sure, there are lookers that never join, but at 5AM EST, we've got nearly 5700 of them???? Not realistic. So, we'd have to have access to how the scan is set up to find the reason, and as CM's, Admins and Members, we simply don't.

[glennzo]

I would argue with the not realistic statement Bob. Since this is an international forum it's obviously a different time of the day depending on your particular location.

[bob]

Nope, I just checked. It's now 5:17AM.

However, I just can't believe that at any one time we have over 5000 people, not members, just checking things out here. It would seem that with a testing distro, especially one with a less-than-perfect search engine, you'd take a couple of minutes to join and ask a question once in awhile. I mean, does it seem reasonable that we'd have a 50-1 ratio? Might be, I suppose, but I'd expect closer to a 5-1 ratio.

[Theodor009]

Some of us may only login when we post and log right back out And even though it's 0556, think hey I can't sleep, I'll read the forums. It's like a glass of warm milk

[Jake]

Originally Posted by bob

Nope, I just checked. It's now 5:17AM.

However, I just can't believe that at any one time we have over 5000 people, not members, just checking things out here. It would seem that with a testing distro, especially one with a less-than-perfect search engine, you'd take a couple of minutes to join and ask a question once in awhile. I mean, does it seem reasonable that we'd have a 50-1 ratio? Might be, I suppose, but I'd expect closer to a 5-1 ratio.

Bob, in my time zone, your post was at 10:21AM .

[X11]

Originally Posted by bob

Nope, I just checked. It's now 5:17AM.

However, I just can't believe that at any one time we have over 5000 people, not members, just checking things out here. It would seem that with a testing distro, especially one with a less-than-perfect search engine, you'd take a couple of minutes to join and ask a question once in awhile. I mean, does it seem reasonable that we'd have a 50-1 ratio? Might be, I suppose, but I'd expect closer to a 5-1 ratio.

I more often then not just search and browse without logging in so I can believe it, many browsers may never register. Many counted guest could be Google spiders also.

I was doing a quick comparison of other forums guest vs registered users ratio mainly:

Sabayon Forums: In total there are 17 users online :: 4 registered, 0 hidden and 13 guests

Ubuntuforums: does not publish this info at all to browsers not signed in, if at all?

Sidux: does not publish this info at all to browsers not signed in, if at all?

Linuxmint: In total there are 17 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 14 guests

Puppy: In total there are 52 users online :: 8 Registered, 0 Hidden and 44 Guests

Archlinux: Registered users online: 18 Guests online: 74

PC-BSD: In total there are 9 users online :: 2 registered, 0 hidden and 7 guests

Gentoo: In total there are 65 users online :: 13 Registered, 3 Hidden and 49 Guests

Xubuntuforums: Online now: 1947 Guests, 54 Members

Debian: In total there are 25 users online :: 3 Registered, 0 Hidden and 22 Guests

Slackware: In total there are 6 users online :: 2 registered, 0 hidden and 4 guests

OzOS: Online now: 7078 Guests, 50 Members

OpenSUSE: does not publish this info at all to browsers not signed in, if at all?

PCLinuxOS: 54 Guests, 11 Users (1 Hidden)

Mandriva: In total there are 241 users online :: 33 Registered, 208 Guests

CentOS: does not publish this info at all to browsers not signed in, if at all?

Fedora Forums: Currently Active Users: 3672 (134 members and 3538 guests)

The variability of time counted is all over the place so you really can't make any conclusive arguments about popularity here, but you can compare registered user to guest for each forum that releases the data...but then again this is distorted by time also.

I think for the most part there are 3 perspectives on this:

1. don't release the data to general public, then if times are slow the distro doesn't appear dead or dieing.

2. set the time longer for a historical perspective, mainly useful for the admins

3. set the time shorter for a quick snapshot of whose on now, mainly useful to forum users

all 3 perspectives is decided on by the admins of the particular forum and all 3 are right or wrong depending on perspective.

That's just my 2 cents

[Dan]

Hmmmm.

I dunno, Bob.

I'm thinking those numbers might be fairly accurate.

http://www.quantcast.com/fedoraforum.org

But it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.

[shess01]

Whatever the case, there sure do seem like a whole lot more noobs on the forum lately...

[bee]

Originally Posted by hephasteus

Has anyone else noticed that theres always like 5000 or more people on here lately?

i think that's because of vbulletin too.
It keeps counting one user until his session is alive. When his session expire he's removed.
So, if the session is set to one hour, and a user opens one single post in the forum... for one whole hour he's showed as online user/guest.
That is why if you close your Firefox window, without clinking on LogOut, for the next hour(s?--at least one) you'll be visible in the online users list..with your last "location" and if you click on "Logout", as you will open at least one page without be a logged-user, you'll be counted as a guest anyway
im not fully sure, but i think that may be a reason

bye!!!!

[Jake]

Bee is right, if you arrange members by last online on Who's online, and then click last, when I checked it the very last persons activity was at 9AM, The Administrators should knock the time down to 15 Minutes then expire or 30.

[dragonbite]

Hey, it's better than the alternative (nobody on the fourms)!

I've only been coming to the forums regularly for a couple of weeks now (since I installed Fedora 10 on my laptop) so if you are comparing now to before then, then I'm one of those "new" poeple. (did any of that make sense?)