Why so many guests?
PostPosted:Mon Sep 28, 2026 7:05 pm
Just noticed something: Why are there so many guests listed at the bottom of the forum?
Because we're so popular!
Also, bots
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Re: Why so many guests?
PostPosted:Mon Sep 28, 2026 8:53 pm
Re: Why so many guests?
PostPosted:Mon Sep 28, 2026 8:59 pm
Dang, I guess bots love phpBB forums more than most websites 
(Then again, maybe most websites have that many without tracking them in hindsight 
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(Then again, maybe most websites have that many without tracking them in hindsight )Re: Why so many guests?
PostPosted:Tue Sep 29, 2026 1:19 am
All the AI training stuff and probably a fair number of hacking attempts.
Re: Why so many guests?
PostPosted:Thu Oct 01, 2026 8:28 am
70% of internet traffic is now AI, and they don't obey the search engine rules (like honouring robots.txt) - so that's the guts of the traffic.