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Title: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 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?

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 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.

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: Paul_123 on September 01, 2025, 08:55:22 AM

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

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 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.

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: Paul_123 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.

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on September 02, 2025, 06:36:16 PM

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/1820249/are-ai-web-crawlers-destroying-websites-in-their-hunt-for-training-data