What?????

[Toby]

This is what the home page says right now, 11:10 a.m. on 3/29:

Currently Active Users: 443 (12 members and 431 guests and 0 spiders)

 

[Greebo]

We're really, REALLY popular...











Ok, not really...

I was installing a hack to display how many web spyders were crawling the site.

I applied it wrong initially (bad math)

Fortunately once i fixed it all I had to do was reset the "most online ever" value. So now its "most online since Greebo messed up the who's online spyder hack".

 

[Carol]

We're really, REALLY popular...











Ok, not really...

I was installing a hack to display how many web spyders were crawling the site.

I applied it wrong initially (bad math)

Fortunately once i fixed it all I had to do was reset the "most online ever" value. So now its "most online since Greebo messed up the who's online spyder hack".

What's a "who's online spyder hack"?

 

[Greebo]

A "spyder" is a web crawling program that spies out a website for search engines. Who's Online is the function here that shows you who's currently viewing the forums.

The Who's Online Spyder Hack changes the Who's Online function to identify Spyders that are currently crawling the site.

 

[Flyboy]

Ok, I'll get my big cyber shoe and start smaking them.

 

[Greebo]

No no - Spyders are a GOOD thing. The more spyders hit our site, the more widely visible we are!

 

[Tom-D]

What's a "who's online spyder hack"?

It's geekey stuff, don't get on your shoe.