User count

[TwingleTheScraggler]

The site says that there were 1748 users online just yesterday? What is up with that? (Granted, the vast majority of them were probably guests, but still...)

[Lazy Loof]

The site says that there were 1748 users online just yesterday? What is up with that? (Granted, the vast majority of them were probably guests, but still...)

Good observation. Most probably spams, I think we'd better report this to Patrick.

[TwingleTheScraggler]

The site says that there were 1748 users online just yesterday? What is up with that? (Granted, the vast majority of them were probably guests, but still...)

Good observation. Most probably spams, I think we'd better report this to Patrick.

Spams? As in, spam bot accounts?

[TwingleTheScraggler]

By the way, now the highest count is shown as 4410 today.

[garirry]

It's not spam. It's web scrapers. There's invasive ways to reduce them, but unless it's significantly harming the performance of this website, it's probably not really worth it.

[TwingleTheScraggler]

Oh. I read that the Internet Archive uses them. If they want to preserve the forum for posterity, then I don't see any problem with it.

[TwingleTheScraggler]

Though it does make me wonder how many human users are viewing the page at any moment.