Let's make the biggest number of users online !

I think when the forum is back to normal - with the new old skin, then I think the admin can send an email out to everyone about the update and people might decide to come back

format_quote Originally Posted by aadil77

I think when the forum is back to normal - with the new old skin, then I think the admin can send an email out to everyone about the update and people might decide to come back

Yeah, true that can bring them back too.

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I probably shouldn't.... but I stay logged in even when I am not here. Does it show up that I am logged in even when my browser is closed?

lol I'm not sure I understand how that works, but that will be good as long as you stay logged in even when the browser is closed.

Hi marwen

If you are after the maximum number of members, you might want to check which part of the world most members live - and then set the time accordingly.
For example, my guess is that many people here are in the UK, and many are younger members. 0:00 GMT equates to 1:00 in the morning - you are not going to catch many UK'lers then ...
It might be a good time for the US (late afternoon or early evening), but you will not catch Europe.

I suggest you try and find a time which is accessible and manageable for as many forum members as possible ...

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Hi marwen

If you are after the maximum number of members, you might want to check which part of the world most members live - and then set the time accordingly.
For example, my guess is that many people here are in the UK, and many are younger members. 0:00 GMT equates to 1:00 in the morning - you are not going to catch many UK'lers then ...
It might be a good time for the US (late afternoon or early evening), but you will not catch Europe.

I suggest you try and find a time which is accessible and manageable for as many forum members as possible ...

Thank you glo, that's really a good point. Actually I made a suggestion of the time : I thought 00:00 GMT will be in the middle of the world, so people befor GMT (evening) and the others after GMT (morning) will be able to connect. But it's just a suggestion and we can change it.
Now as you reminded me that the big part of us are from UK, so may be we should make it more suitable for UK residents with respecting the time of the other countries. we have a number of memers from asia too.

May be we should make it at the evening in UK. I guess 20:00 GMT is good (it will be late night in USA too), what do you think ?

Ok I guess we have to change the time a little bit. It will be 20:00 GMT instead of 00:00. That's because, as sister glo mentioned, a lot of members are from UK and it's hard for them to connect at 00:00 GMT (~01:00), and that's what I saw this night. So the new time is 20:00 GMT Thursday (tomorrow). Hope it's convenient for the majority of people here. I will put this in the main post.

But now I need your votes to see if the idea is successful or not.

Marwen, I noticed that the most users ever online so far were 510, on 07-10-2009 at 09:39 PM. Many of those may have been guests.
(I wonder what happened on that day to attract such a high number. It was past Ramadan and Eid, so that can't have been the reason ...)

So it's a HUGE number you are trying to beat!
You will certainly have to spread the word and rally people round before you have the chance of breaking a new record.

Perhaps using one of the festivals, such as Ramadan or Eid, might increase your chances of attracting a lot of people. How about an online Eid gathering? (I'd join and break the fast with you all! )

Good luck!

Yeah good Idea ! , but the probem is the message won't reach all the members. only online memebers can see it and not for long.
And I couldn't afford to pm all the members here.

concerning the 510, I think it was the admin who sent them automatic e-mails, so they come at the same time lol.
I think it's hard to beat that number. I just want the forum to be more crowded to have more ideas and more benefit.

The big day was yesterday right? Did it go as planned?

format_quote Originally Posted by seekerofjannah

The big day was yesterday right? Did it go as planned?

No unfortunately it wasn't so successful. May be we should have an event or something in order to get more members.

Good try!. . .i guess it didnt work

If at any moment you look at the number of users here you will see that at most only 10% are members. the greatest numbers seem to come from people doing google searches. so to increase the numbers we need people to start more significant threads that will push us to the top page in google searches,

So what we need to do is do a google search on any topic. If IB does not show on the first page, start a good thread about the topic.

Notice if you do a google search for top Islamic forums. We show up very high.



However if you do a google search for Aardvarks, we do not show at all:



So it is now obvious that to get a high user count on a specific day we all need to make significant posts about Aardvarks

My option.

Great idea but im too busy to be a part of it