7681 users online today? At once?

[TacticalCompact]

so can you at least tell us what thread generated so much attention?

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[QKShooter]

"7681 users online today? At once?"

Friends of mine.

[maclean3]

"7681 users online today? At once?"

Friends of mine.

There's a difference between "friends" and, umm "voices."
Jack

[Yoda]

so can you at least tell us what thread generated so much attention?

+1 inquiring minds want to know

[stanislaskasava]

That sounds like it must have been a slow down at your ISP or somewhere in between. The 7K+ number was at around noon Pacific. I haven't heard anything about a slow down or other problem at the time you were having problems. Could it have been an attack on your ISP?

I had been viewing for an hour or so, then it happened when I used the 'New Posts' link. I couldn't get back to the main forum. I closed IE and tried again, no dice... I think I got a 404 error 3 times. Other sites were working fine. I came back in half an hour and it worked fine. I just assumed dc was down for maintenance or under attack. I guess not.

I experienced a bit of a slow down just before noon. As George said, by 6pm PST "the deluge" was over. Hundreds of points along the way, your connection could have been slowed for some reason, including your ISP. I never experienced not being able to connect to the site and, overall, performance was much better than it was before the upgrade with only 1000 connected. I'm pretty happy, actually....

Yeah, it must have been somewhere else in the pipeline. The site has been very fast, even with a full house.

[sniper58]

It was slow for me for a while (Comcast in Colorado).