TerraDreamer opened this issue on May 01, 2005 ยท 150 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 02 May 2005 at 10:54 PM
but the number does fluctuate largely at times
I believe that this phenomenon has a lot to do with time zones.
When it's daylight in Southeast Asia, it's the middle of the night in the US. And even across the contiguous 48 states there's a three hour time difference from coast to coast.
I suspect that a plurality of Renderosity's members live on the East Coast of the United States. While I am a night owl -- and I might post something in here at 2:30 in the morning my time (EST) -- most people are in bed at that hour. And 2:30AM for me is only 11:30PM on the West Coast.
So -- at certain time periods GMT 65% or more of Renderosity's membership is likely asleep.
And even us forumites don't spend all of our time hanging around here..........
It's not really surprising that the number of members/visitors online at any given time will fluctuate.