WormNET statistics
From Worms Knowledge Base
(Up to WormNET (Worms Armageddon))
The WormNET statistics page is a collection of statistical information about WormNET activity. Except for the WormNAT2 graph at the bottom, data is collected by the Web Snooper bot.
Activity is measured by channel joins (thus, a player joining a channel represents one activity measurement unit). This is why W:A users represent the majority in the version distribution chart, even though #AnythingGoes is mostly occupied by snooper users. Up until September 14th 2009, WebSnooper was only present in #AnythingGoes, and thus didn't monitor activity in other channels.
Timeline
Here is a list of major events that had an effect on the displayed statistics (whether directly or indirectly).
- October 13, 2008
- WormNAT2 server was launched.
- February 24, 2009
- Web Snooper was released and began logging #AnythingGoes activity.
- June 1, 2009
- A memory corruption bug that was causing instability in WormNAT2 was fixed, after a day of intensive on-site debugging.
- June 19, 2009
- WormNET server was inaccessible for a few hours due to migration to another ISP.
- July 17, 2009
- Team17 DNS servers were down for a few hours.
- August 5, 2009
- Team17 DNS servers were down for more than a few hours.
- August 10-11, 2009
- Planned network maintenance.
- August 23-24, 2009
- Another DNS outage that lasted a good part of the weekend. The problem causing random DNS outages is believed to have been fixed on the 25th.
- September 14, 2009
- WebSnooper began logging activity in all WormNET channels. This caused a spike in accumulated statistics.
- September 22-23, 2009
- WormNAT2 server went down for 16 hours due to broken link dependencies.
