Is this a spider or just popularity?

145 guests have accessed the forum in the last 15 minutes

Spider or a slow Offline Downloader.

- wil

185 guests have accessed the forum in the last 15 minutes:

Hm, I was wondering this the other day, actually. In the "Who's Online" window, do we actually need to know where all the guests are. I find this preety pointless. It's fun spying on known members, but spying on guests is no fun :-\.

Maybe it could list the Online members, and then just have text saying ".. and 45 guests online" - cut out the table showing their activity. I suppose this is a just a simple template change.

- wil

I'd like it if there was a link to the actual page the user was looking at, otherwise yes, its kind of pointless.

--Philip
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Yeah, there's a hack for VBulletin that does that. Scary!

- wil

Wow! I think I need to close my bedroom curtains, the peekers are on the loose

Firstly, Sigh... I think you've missed the point. User "A" is in the the forum forum lisst and user "B" is in the Links SQL forum list. This forum reports both users A and B as being in the "forum list". While that may be techincly correct where the script is concerned, it gives no real information about what is really being viewed because it doesn't say what forum list is being viewed.

Second,what part of that is grounds for calling someone a pervert? If you're worried about your privacy then you can opt out of the who's online page.

--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator

Awwooooga:

461 guests have accessed the forum in the last 15 minutes

Getting higher :)

518

It seems Altavista really likes those search engine friendly pages. In my stats for yesterday:

41576 requests: Scooter-W3.1.2

=)

Cheers,

Alex
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Mamma mia :)

Wow...impressive! Makes you wonder if its a good or bad thing

Andy (mod)
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As long as the software and server can handle it it's a good thing. When things start crashing, then it's a bad thing. ;)

Cheers,

Alex
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Seems to be coping well.

Its been spidering for several hours now, surely it can't last much longer :)

Yeah, I notice that google has been indexing these 'search engine friendly' pages at top-speed, too.

Didn't take that long to get into the google database didn't it?! Things usually take a whie to get indexed. But maybe it takes a while to index new material or sites, but less to re-index updated sites. Hm.

- wil

This might be of interest to some of you:

http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/

- wil

Well, it turned out it was "Google 2" going a bit crazy.

http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/~testbed/doc2/WebBase/

It's building on the code used by Google (which was developed in phase 1 in stanford).

Cheers,

Alex
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