by Schwärmer » Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:51 pm
Take note: Most users ever online was 6905 on Sun May 07, 2017 1:21 am
More recently: Most users ever online was 10638 on Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:53 pm
Whatever caused this sudden influx, it is not an accurate portrayal of normal activity, which hovers somewhere around 500-600(generously up to 700-800), however even when this forum was displaying 1000-2000(I swear I saw it) total users online based on the past 60 minutes, the majority of these forums were not actively used. To put this into perspective: the popular forums were probably receiving 10-15 replies on any given day, and always between, normally, the same pool of users between the 2-3 popular ones, with the occasional single post elsewhere. Further perspective: There are in total 95 sections to post in here, not including the subforums within them.
tl;dr the forum shows more active users than users who actively contribute. Again, the majority of the population seems to be lurkers, and so this will reflect the lack of support that you are experiencing.