Record Day - Thanks to some mentions

Funny day today, I woke up and stumbled over to my computer and there were already 5 colors picked for the day, this is rare, often I’m 2nd or 3rd, but very few of the regulars is up on the east coast as early as me. So I was puzzled.

Then I remembered I’d emailed some info out about some of the recent feature updates to some design blogs I subscribe to personally. Yes indeed, dirtymouse.co.uk had run a post on Hexday - welcome to all the visitors from there, I hope you enjoy the site and come back tomorrow.

While I was poking around look at my google stats, one thing seemed very weird. Dirty Mouse ran the post today, yet yesterday’s stats were over 400 unique visitors and they all seemed to be coming from France - something else was going on.

It seems from digging through the logs that there is a Swedish Counter Strike Clan that is using a hex color value as their team name 0E1F23. They “launched” yesterday, and it seems in almost every location where they announced their start, someone asked them what the name meant and then someone linked to that color on hexday. It means in the last 24 hours #0E1F23 has had over 500 unique visits, mainly from European online gaming clan sites and forums. Hello to everyone on the 0E1F23 team, it’s a great color to pick - if you want to email me a link or something, I’ll add a reference it on that page for you.

Last Big day was Novemeber 14th 2007:

Today:

Update: Well we have the heady count of 16 picks for today. That’s the most of any day every in the 270 day history of Hexday. Big thank you to old and new users. Hope to see you all tomorrow.