1:25 am - early hours of Tuesday - 23 members online (although only twenty usernames appear - the usual suspects this time of night) - but 176 guests!

Is this real - what do they find so fascinating - I can't imagine viewing the Forum and not taking part.

I've noticed some high counts at other times - I can imagine it during say lunch hour when people may log on from work to read posts but, like me, can't log on as a user because of company rules.

However I can't really believe there are about 8 times as many guests lurking out there this time of night as there are users.

They might not be people :) they might be what are called search engine bots. When you do a search in google or whatever, as it would take humans millions of years to get the details of every page and create an index of it, robots do it and on a forum of this size with so many news posts and topics being made all the time, they get real busy :)

I was thinking something along the same lines Jimbob - although I'd be amazed if there were that many "bots" - and who exactly is indexing the recorded sayings of kirky, don_kiddick etc:hihi:

It does make you think how reliable the "record number of users" is.

Lol, its possible. I've read of thousands of the buggers being on a single forum at once :loopy: crazy.

Would you appear as a guest when you get logged out? because it happens so often that I don't bother logging back in until I find a thread I want to post on. But that still seems like a lot of people:huh:

Well, right now, these are a few of the guests on-line and what they are doing.....

Guest Viewing Thread
Blonde or Brown Hair?
01:29 AM Guest Viewing Thread
Ring Angel Eyes - the next generation in car styling
01:34 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Index
Sheffield Forum
01:28 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Thread
Blackburn Meadows
01:34 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Thread
Last Saturdaysn Afterlife
01:28 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Index
Sheffield Forum
01:34 AM Guest Chat
01:27 AM Guest Viewing Thread
Hurlfield School, Girl Punch-up

Now, can someone tell me what is AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider? :huh:

Now, can someone tell me what is AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider? :huh:

Its the search engine yahoo collecting data to list pages in their search engine :)

:D was about to post a link to

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/online.php

Well, right now, these are a few of the guests on-line and what they are doing.....

Guest Viewing Thread
Blonde or Brown Hair?
01:29 AM Guest Viewing Thread
Ring Angel Eyes - the next generation in car styling
01:34 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Index
Sheffield Forum
01:28 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Thread
Blackburn Meadows
01:34 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Thread
Last Saturdaysn Afterlife
01:28 AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider Viewing Index
Sheffield Forum
01:34 AM Guest Chat
01:27 AM Guest Viewing Thread
Hurlfield School, Girl Punch-up

Now, can someone tell me what is AM Yahoo! Slurp Spider? :huh:


AM = AM as in morning.

hmm :) I wonder if they have different robots running durring AM to PM to ease the load, or maybe when one lot isnt spidering its building reports with the data it has collected.

Thanks spyro. Now you know why I've chosen my new registered name! :hihi:

Thanks spyro. Now you know why I've chosen my new registered name! :hihi:


hehe no worries, although really, there shouldnt be AM next to the time, because it is in the 24 hour format :thumbsup:

hehe no worries, although really, there shouldnt be AM next to the time, because it is in the 24 hour format :thumbsup:
The forum's clock's in 12 hour format, spyro.

On dear....did I just mention the unmentionable forum clock:blush:

The forum's clock's in 12 hour format, spyro.

On dear....did I just mention the unmentionable forum clock:blush:


ahah yes you are right. Its just that I rarely ever see SF while its PM. Im mostly on in the AM.

But saying that, why does your post say 06:23 AM, shouldnt it say 6:23 AM?

Plus what are you doing up at that time :hihi:

"Bots" on the Forum currently outnumbering members in the ratio of 5:1 - ah well, nice to know our words of wisdom are being painstakingly indexed for the benefit of the www.

Could raise the average IQ in Leeds by a couple of dozen points :hihi:

The forum's clock's in 12 hour format, spyro.

On dear....did I just mention the unmentionable forum clock:blush:

Has Ann_X been banned? :hihi: