What's up with Phenix Informatique?

Gryzor · 18:33, 08 March 11

Seriously, has something happened? Has Sugar released a new CPC and Phenix has the scoop? Because from an average of 200-ish visits yesterday, according to Topsites, it had 402 and today... 1808 and counting?

??

Devilmarkus · 18:58, 08 March 11

POKE &94E,&FF:POKE &94E+1,&FF: Set number of visitors... (FF,FF = 65535)

Gryzor · 19:04, 08 March 11

Cheating, then? It's gone up 150 hits in the last half hour... crazy!

Is this why you deleted the past few days last week?

Going to check out their forum, see if there's anything going on...

PS Poke.... lol

Devilmarkus · 19:05, 08 March 11

Hummmmm?
I didn't delete anything!

Gryzor · 19:08, 08 March 11

Really? Lst week there were three consecutive days with 0 hits....

Gryzor · 09:01, 09 March 11

They're still doing it... yesterday they stopped at 2800, today they're already at 500 hits. Maybe ban them?

Devilmarkus · 12:51, 09 March 11

I dunno....
But the stats really look very "phantastic" (I mean: manipulated!)
There are less than ~100 active CPC-fan's.
And more than 900 hits per day? Impossible!

steve · 14:58, 09 March 11

Maybe it is newsbot continually checking for news to post on cpc wiki.

Gryzor · 15:33, 09 March 11

Heheh... Newsbot checks the rss feed, it does not poll the actual web page, so it can't be that.

Even 900 hits would be over the top - our top rate was less than 500 hits in Topsites in our entire history. Short of an exclusive on a brand new CPC model I doubt it very, very seriously that this could be achieved.

But indeed, it's relatively easy to cheat it with a proxy list - up to now I naively assumed you had to bypass the voting page, but (duh) hits have nothing to do with voting, and googling it for less than five minutes gave me a good set of tools to trick it...

Can you check the referrers? Maybe there's something there...

Devilmarkus · 15:57, 09 March 11

No, sorry, no referrers are listed...

Devilmarkus · 16:04, 09 March 11

I contacted them via email.
Will wait for reply...

Gryzor · 17:37, 09 March 11

Cool, let us know

yesterday I visited their forums, I didn't find anything exciting...

remax · 18:25, 09 March 11

Quote from: Gryzor on 17:37, 09 March 11
Cool, let us know yesterday I visited their forums, I didn't find anything exciting...

It is certainly because of Tonton Mayonnaise great tests

Gryzor · 19:15, 09 March 11

Do they have Olivia Wilde in sex scenes?

gerald · 21:31, 09 March 11

See by yourself (but don't expect too much).
http://www.phenixinformatique.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=244

For those who do not speak french, they published an interview of Marion Vannier who was in charge of Amstrad France.

Gryzor · 21:36, 09 March 11

Yeah, I have already read it, great stuff. It has a counter of 6000 reads, which is amazingly impressive. Does Vannier hold any more general interest in France?

phenix · 21:48, 09 March 11

No, there is no kind of deceit of our part...

We indeed realized the interview of Marion basket maker, CEO of Amstrad France from 1982 till 1992.
This information was published on several important sites, what explains our impressive statistics.

Phi2x · 21:49, 09 March 11

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Gryzor · 21:52, 09 March 11

Quote from: phenix on 21:48, 09 March 11
No, there is no kind of deceit of our part...

We indeed realized the interview of Marion basket maker, CEO of Amstrad France from 1982 till 1992.
This information was published on several important sites, what explains our impressive statistics.

Amazing work then, guys... congrats!!!

Any chance of having an english translation?

PS Basket Maker? Google translate fail?

PS2 @Phil: yes, it is amazing. Any non-retro sites that mentioned the interview?

norecess · 22:03, 09 March 11

PhenixInformatique is really popular in France. Because it actually attracts "non regular CPC people", I mean, you know - the guys launching Commando or Fruity Frank from times to times and does not care at all about the rest.

High hit counts about this site does not shock me at all!

Marion Vannier is a popular character because she has been interviewed many times in French magazines at the time. She's considered as the girl who introduced Amstrad machines in France. Doing that recent interview was a big hit from PhenixInformatique's team.

Phi2x · 22:06, 09 March 11

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Devilmarkus · 22:29, 09 March 11

Quote from: gerald on 21:31, 09 March 11
See by yourself (but don't expect too much).
http://www.phenixinformatique.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=244

For those who do not speak french, they published an interview of Marion Vannier who was in charge of Amstrad France.

Yes, she is a VIP in France.
This maybe a good reason for many clicks.
As I told, I mailed to phenix.
The reply is that they just have so many visitors because of their work.

In fact, because of this interview, that's realistic.

genesis8 · 23:03, 09 March 11

Congratulation for the interview, it's a nice thing that it was advertized on sites like pcinpact, if it can bring back people to the Amstrad like Luke 15 (The parables of the lost sheep and of the prodigal son).

Devilmarkus · 09:59, 10 March 11

I removed phenixinformatique by request from the toplist site.

Gryzor · 10:00, 10 March 11

Removed? But why? Wasn't it real?? I actually added a link to the interview on the front page...

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