1850 people on the Forums on December 30, 2004?

robet

That's a LOT, beating the previous record by 3x+. Is that an error or something?
note: I don't think this should be in GFF, so I put it here.
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rhill · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:

i blame Y2K.
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amne · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

Was a side effect of that recent phpBB worm. We were properly patched against the vulnerability, but thousands of cracked servers hammered our servers trying to exploit a vulnerability that wasn't there. The result was a lot of visitors showing up in the statistics. ian! also applied some changes so that these clients got delivered empty pages instead of the page they were trying to access (less pain for the forums database).