[snoozer]

At my favorite MUD, all players logged in are considered "active". We're a roleplaying MUD and don't support idling. If they do idle, they get booted after 15 minutes of inactivity.

Here's how we keep track of active accounts vs. total accounts: we keep records for the past 24 hours, the past week, the past month, and the past year. But we don't do much of anything with the data.

Here's the data from 7am EST.

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Accursed Lands
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In the game right now, there are:
6 "unknown" characters you have yet to meet,
0 "known" characters you have already met,
4 "hidden" character who prefer not to advertise their presence, and
5 creators working on the world,
for a total of:
15 currently online.
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Active accounts in last day: 52 Active accounts in last week: 104
Active accounts in last month: 204 Active accounts in last year: 1904
Registered emails: 4977
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Janda, the 18th of Halax, in the dead of winter of 405YT. 7/18/5
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Oh, by the way, we only allow one account per player (although some people try to cheat from time to time).