anyone notice how many guests there are on the forums?

[Texan101]

They're what you call spiders, search engines like Google or Bing crawling the web to keep your searches updated.

Some of them yes, but I doubt most of them are.

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[King Tøny]

If you click the user list you'll see these guests viewing topics. Can spiders do that? Why are they doing that?

[Aide33]

If you click the user list you'll see these guests viewing topics. Can spiders do that? Why are they doing that?

yes, they index every page for search results

[King Tøny]

yes, they index every page for search results

Creepy bro

[Flamecannon]

is it just me or does it seem like there's way less people here now.

If you're judging by the image he posted, that must've been taken round late night cause I normally see like 50+ people around

[Drydess]

do spiders blacklist searching sites like research sites or do they just do it anyways

[King Tøny]

Guests never go down 200

[Kamutog]

do spiders blacklist searching sites like research sites or do they just do it anyways

Well I mean you can google for research and get results so uh....

[The Resonte!]

they're tourists and we're the zoo animals

[Texan101]

they're tourists and we're the zoo animals

So much this.

[hillkill]

If you're judging by the image he posted, that must've been taken round late night cause I normally see like 50+ people around

yeah i remember when i used to see 150+ people around

[JumboMuffin]

yeah i remember when i used to see 150+ people around

i remember when we hit 1608 online members in nov 2013