Grumpy Grapes Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 "1,205 users online" a few minutes ago. Is this a record for this forum, or a fault in monitoring traffic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campion Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Bots perhaps? The forum homepage says the all time max was 5,749 on 21/8/2021. Other forums have lots of bots too afaik. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 3 hours ago, Campion said: Bots perhaps? The forum homepage says the all time max was 5,749 on 21/8/2021. Other forums have lots of bots too afaik. I'm surprised at 5749 as for a long time the figures have hovered between 50 and 300. It seemed to me a big jump to pass the 1000 barrier just recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 As the the news gets crazier, more and more people are probably waking up, and going in search of online resources that discuss what's really going on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti Facts Sir Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 This place, believe it or not, used to be very active. But even then we had tons of bots. I blame the Russians. Or the Chinese. That's usually who gets blamed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1velocity7 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 back in 2014 you could find literally any wild conspiracies on the internet now its so impossible with all the censoring and algorithms they been buried 100 pages down in the search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagdog19 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I believe the 'Above top secret' forum/site has been blocked here (UK). Maybe DI absorbing parched truth seekers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 15 minutes ago, wagdog19 said: I believe the 'Above top secret' forum/site has been blocked here (UK). Maybe DI absorbing parched truth seekers Was that due to the new online 'safety' act? I've never used that forum, so don't know much about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 819 just now. Last week it would have been a 100 or 200. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagdog19 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 10 minutes ago, Piero said: Was that due to the new online 'safety' act? I've never used that forum, so don't know much about it. Yes, I'm guessing it is. Been down a couple of weeks now. Wasn't great, but still, 1 less stronghold. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 164 online now, so getting back to normal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted May 18 Author Share Posted May 18 592 online at 11pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numnuts Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 1,500 online at 2am. Thames Water must be involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numnuts Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 1,800 online at 9am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted June 23 Author Share Posted June 23 2177 at 9-06pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 2835 at 6-15pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Owl Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 On 6/23/2025 at 9:08 PM, Grumpy Grapes said: 2177 at 9-06pm On 6/26/2025 at 6:16 PM, Grumpy Grapes said: 2835 at 6-15pm Bots. Here's a heads up, on another website I help to manage for someone, we've had to block an entire range of IP addresses used by 'Facebook', as they have been overloading the server causing it to timeout and show errors to our regular users. Our security service has also been blocking specific IP addresses for 'suspicious activity'. I ran some checks on these IP addresses and they come up as owned by Meta Platforms - which is correct as Meta owns Facebook. I can't prove this but I suspect these bots are something to do with Meta's AI, and they are crawling the internet to find information to 'train' the AI with. Or the relentless crawling is an attempt to disrupt and/or take down those sites - which I could expect for this forum, but not for my friend's beekeeping enthusiast website! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Grapes Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 (edited) "To Block or Bot to Block… Should You Block AI Bots from Crawling Your Website?" https://mrs.digital/blog/should-you-block-ai-crawlers/ Edited June 29 by Grumpy Grapes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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