How many Online Users do you see on the left side of the page?

[AnchorAlumna]

It's Tuesday at 1:10 a.m. CDT. I'm the only member online, and there are 1,757 guests prowling about.

[John]

15,051 was the highest number of "Online Users" so far.

Most of those were some kind of bot or web crawler. Some of those should no longer show up in the Online Users count, so the numbers shouldn't be all that high anymore, at least not on a regular basis unless GC has an explosion of traffic or more bots arrive. Just made these changes a few minutes ago.

[AGDee]

1182- The bots must be sleeping

I've been at a security conference for a few days and learned about a bot net of thousands of refrigerators you can purchase to attack sites for you, on the dark web. A whole army of refrigerators- what would people in the 50's say if you told them that would happen some day??

[John]

Originally Posted by AGDee

1182- The bots must be sleeping

I gave them some virtual melatonin. Hopefully that works for a bit.

Originally Posted by AGDee

I've been at a security conference for a few days and learned about a bot net of thousands of refrigerators you can purchase to attack sites for you, on the dark web.

All it probably took was a single security flaw and those IoT / Internet of Things devices were quickly turned into an IoB / Internet of Bots. Crazy.

My guess is that eventually there'll be bot armies controlled by AI as well as AI trained for hacking. Probably exists to some extent already. Mix in some LLM stuff and... I suppose we are in store for an interesting tech future.

Originally Posted by AGDee

A whole army of refrigerators- what would people in the 50's say if you told them that would happen some day??

It kinda sounds crazy even today. In the 50's, might not have even made sense to most people back then. But by the 60s they had The Jetsons & Star Trek...

[flirt5721]

Online Users: 1,211
1,209 guests

[kdonline]

1,712

[John]

23274, Today at 08:10 AM

[PhoenixAttain]

8:48pm 6/5/25- 4 members and 25,739 guests

[John]

New peak: 25,803

Most users ever online was 25803, Today at 08:38 PM.

Originally Posted by PhoenixAttain

8:48pm 6/5/25- 4 members and 25,739 guests

If you were on GC when we hit that number, how was the site/server handling that amount of traffic? Super slow or not too bad?

[Cranberry]

31,603

[SAEalumnus]

4 members and 391 guests
Most users ever online was 45617, Yesterday at 09:20 PM.

As of 12:14pm PDT today.

[PhoenixAttain]

It was actually running pretty smoothly when I was on last night.

[John]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAttain

It was actually running pretty smoothly when I was on last night.

Glad to hear that. I was thinking these bots would be bringing the site to a crawl.

Originally Posted by SAEalumnus

4 members and 391 guests
Most users ever online was 45617, Yesterday at 09:20 PM.

As of 12:14pm PDT today.

45617

That just blows me a way. I'm both technically fascinated that the server setup is handling that traffic while despising all those bots at the same time. It's like some sort of love hate relationship!

[AGDee]

5366 now.

[Sciencewoman]

2 members and 27,957 "guests!"