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Offline gadget42

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question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?

iirc, up until quite recently the most online ever was about 1k less?

did we get a mention somewhere recently?

or is it just increased ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc activities?
« Last Edit: August 23, 2025, 02:04:34 AM by gadget42 »
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Offline gadget42

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just noticed that a few hours after i posted the above commentary on the increased traffic from ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc, the ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc traffic doubled. ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc is ruining the open web for everyone everywhere.
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Offline Paul_123

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It’s bots.  There is not an easy way to remove them from the online count

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imho i think it is better that forum members/visitors ARE able to see the bot traffic

i would not want it hidden at/on any website, in fact it should be actively called out by all the websites under siege.
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Most of them are well behaved, honoring rate settings.   I’ve not seen it really affect the load of the server.

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