robbelg wrote:Apparently there's 503 online right now.
Ha! In just 9 minutes that's jumped to 530 - will we see the 640 record broken this evening?
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robbelg wrote:Apparently there's 503 online right now.
Clitheroekid wrote:robbelg wrote:Apparently there's 503 online right now.
Ha! In just 9 minutes that's jumped to 530 - will we see the 640 record broken this evening?
Gengulphus wrote:Must say I'm getting very fed up with the "The website is too busy to show the webpage" error, which I never remember seeing until the last few days but now seems to be hitting about 10-20% of my Lemon Fool page loads, I think pretty much at random. The timing of when it started suggests strongly to me that it's related to the large number of "guests"...
Gengulphus
AndyPandy wrote:Gengulphus wrote:It looks pretty random, and the fact that there are quite a few attempting to reply to messages as guests suggests not very intelligent. Maybe a rather feeble attempt to spam the boards?
Gengulphus
Since phpBB is (one of) the biggest free BB software packages out there and since its settings can allow posts or replies without registering, spam bots scour t'Internet looking for phpBB installations and attempt spam posts with nefarious links. The creators know how to craft a message in the right format to simulate inputting content and hittng 'submit'
As it's automated, it doesn't care if posting to a BB is restricted to registered users as it just moves on to the next (hopefully) accessible BB.
Some will also be written to exploit bugs in previous versions, hoping to find hosts that have not updated their software.
I don't see it much now but I used to regularly see abandoned BBs with loads of spam replies stuffed full of links to .ru websites.
gryffron wrote:It seems staggering that there are so few registered users and so many guests. Who are all these lurkers?
I can't believe they are our regulars who just haven't bothered to login. The site is so much easier to navigate once you are logged on, as it colours new posts.
Gryff
melonfool wrote:It's not people, it's automated bot things. They look for what is written so they can focus their advertising. And some are spam bots.
Gengulphus wrote:Must say I'm getting very fed up with the "The website is too busy to show the webpage" error, which I never remember seeing until the last few days but now seems to be hitting about 10-20% of my Lemon Fool page loads, I think pretty much at random. The timing of when it started suggests strongly to me that it's related to the large number of "guests"...
Gengulphus
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