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Offline gadget42

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question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« on: August 23, 2025, 01:49:31 AM »
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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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2025, 02:20:56 AM »
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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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2025, 08:55:22 AM »
It’s bots.  There is not an easy way to remove them from the online count
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2025, 09:43:50 AM »
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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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2025, 10:01:59 AM »
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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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2025, 06:36:16 PM »
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2025, 06:11:10 AM »
wowza!

Most Online Ever: 16857 (December 09, 2025, 12:37:20 PM)

anyone know the _what/why_ regarding this recent rather large spike in MOE traffic?
(might be ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc using residential based proxies which would massively increase the "individual" entity traffic based on originating ip addresses)
(re: residential proxies, see for example _randomly_referenced_ oxylabs.io and www[.]webshare.io)
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