You are correct, I have just checked and there is just a tick box to stay logged in, although you do get logged out periodically, although I don’t know how often.
DDoS?
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Owen Smith
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It's nothing like that often for me. I can't remember the last time I had to log back in.
That does not really answer my question, how are they able to get beyond the log in page to a specific page even it they get an error message there without logging in ?
That is already ticked and remains ticked but only functions whilst my browser is open and I have to log in again every time after closing my browser even if it is just for a minute. I guess I will just have to put up with it as I have no wish to change my browsers cache and memory clean up settings just for here.
Not a hardship just an inconvenience when you only need to read and after doing so you have no need to post anything so had no need to log in. Maybe the issue affected others more than me but no matter how many guests were here I did not notice any real difference in loading times before so for me it is using a sledge hammer to crack a nut and if the only thing they see is an error message would the numbers have declined in time anyway?.
Owen Smith
Well-Known Member
I stay permanently logged in to this and many other sites.
The forum hasn't slowed down for me yet since making changes, whereas previously it was taking around 30 seconds to load any page, and performing any moderation tasks when there were thousands of "Guests" online.
Will keep an eye on things to see how many guests are online this evening.
Will keep an eye on things to see how many guests are online this evening.
Any chance of a reply as to why they are showing as viewing various pages, profiles and forum lists when we just get the log in page please?
I can't answer that, as I don't know.
Thanks anyway, maybe someone has a theory to offer and it turns out to be benign.
This thread shows that we are not alone with this issue.
Crazy amount of guests
I have a small forum, usually a few hundred guests at most. The last days the number of guests have been unusually high, around 3000 and climbing. We now have over 4800 guests. That's not normal. Many "Viewing unknown page" or "Latest content", with a warning sign. IP addresses are from all...
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Owen Smith
Well-Known Member
And the irony is, AI is largely a waste of time anyway. All this money spent, power consumed, CO2 emitted, web sites like ours inconvenienced, and it doesn't even do anything useful.
MymsMan
Ad detector
The software appears to be able to differentiate between members, guests and robots
Robots appear to be the search engines so it is the non-human guests we wish to discourage. Many sites seem to use those annoying "Verify you are human" images.
I don't like them but maybe they could be used as alternative to forcing logon for those that don't like being premanently logged on - just as long as logged users aren't subjected to them.
The software differentiates between user groups, and in our case members not logged in are treated as guests, the same as robots, and come under the unregistered/unconfirmed user group.
We also have a user group for Banned Users.
Logged in members come under the Registered user group, and have the usual forum access and features.
Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
How can it tell? The presence of a cookie?? If a banned user finds and deletes that cookie, they become no longer banned but a normal non-registered guest.
That may be the case, I don’t know, but they won’t be able to login, or see anything on the forum.
You could try your banned test account to verify this.
I am fine with the "Verify you are human" idea but only if it is not the click on all the cars/ zebra crossings/ motor bike etc pics type used by many sites. The pics are often so blurry, distant or not obvious that it is easy to get wrong. Other sites use a simple slider to align a picture or click on the object which is moving differently and they never cause any frustration.