Judah
Enlightened
- Oct 1, 2020
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Because this forum does not use two-way communication, it may take a few minutes to update that information, unless you interact in some way once logged in, in which case the update will be immediateQuestion is, what is the refresh time on that? I always use private browsing on ss, so I have to log in every time I close my browser. Even if that only takes a few seconds, I'll show up as a guest for a little while.
Good point. But even if the ratio of members:guests was double, it would be close to 3:5, which is worrisome.Because this forum does not use two-way communication, it may take a few minutes to update that information, unless you interact in some way once logged in, in which case the update will be immediate
Yes, I was even fine with the number of guests even knowing that it exceeded the number of online users, but that the number of guests reaches a thousand, it worries me a bitSome of them might be long-time lurkers. There's this one forum on which I have lurked for many years and never made an account, I just like reading their posts.
Also, if any guests are reading this: remember that watching cat videos is good for your mental health!
There's a tiny chance they could be bots but on the other hand, I haven't seen a single bot post ever, so I doubt that.Yes, I was even fine with the number of guests even knowing that it exceeded the number of online users, but that the number of guests reaches a thousand, it worries me a bit
This is extremely concerning. Maybe we should have threads only visible to us, away from the public view?
Whenever the guest number spikes significantly, I always think that some random newspaper covered us again (almost always to point fingers at us). If it's some pissant like Dailymail, that's of trivial concern, but when larger papers like the NYT article cover it, it could cause another problem for us (US Congress members are already after this site thanks to that NYT's (s)hit piece, and UK Parliament has us in their list of targets in a new bill).