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Wow!
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:20 pmby sirhc55
This is quite amazing;
a few minutes ago we had 14 registered users and 52 guests online and since Jan 1 we have increased membership by 134!!
Chris
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:23 pmby MHD
Hmmm, perhaps its about time Gary thought about ads!
52 Guests!?
Hey guys!! Come in the water is warm!
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:24 pmby gstark
Chris,
The increase in the number of members is quite amazing.
I suspect that the number of "guests" is actually being inflated by those who are using the rss feed; that's why I disabled it for a little while, but the results that disabling it gave me were not at all conclusive.
I may have to find some way to distinguish the rss feed recipients from the guests so that we can get a better feel for who's doing what.
Re: Wow!
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:25 pmby birddog114
sirhc55 wrote:This is quite amazing;
a few minutes ago we had 14 registered users and 52 guests online and since Jan 1 we have increased membership by 134!!
Chris
That why I rang Gary about 2 hours ago once I saw number of guests!
1K will be soon if this wave will turn into Tsunami and slam the D70Users
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:25 pmby MHD
Do you log the http_referer?? Where is most of the traffic coming from...
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:31 pmby gstark
All the guests are showing different and varied IP addresses.
I would need to try to cross-reference those IPs against those from which members have posted to try to confirm this, or else set the TTL on the pages to a ludicrously low level to force them to refresh their source more frequently.
What I just did was rename the page for about 45 minutes, but whilstever a client is using the file from their cache, I'm not going to be seeing any changes here.
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:51 pmby Nnnnsic
And yet still no metatags.
However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:53 pmby birddog114
Nnnnsic wrote:And yet still no metatags.
However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.
That what my concerning and thoughts
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:13 pmby gstark
Nnnnsic wrote:And yet still no metatags.
However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.
Another point of interest is that, despite the load that this traffic should be putting on the server and connection, it seems (to me) to be holding up quit well.
Again, that kind of points to the load being rss related, as the rss get will be very low volume in terms of total bytes transmitted.
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:15 pmby MHD
Nnnnsic wrote:And yet still no metatags.
However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.
Hmm.. there isnt either!
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:19 pmby Nnnnsic
You know, if it were RSS related, I'd expect I'd be able to see that the guests were looking over the "new posts" or something like that.
When the number fluctuates again, we'll have to see what the guests are doing to see if that is indeed coming from a RSS related issue.
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:28 pmby gstark
I thought about that too, but I don't think so. The queries being returned are the 15 most recent topics, and I suspect that the lattermost of those is what's being reported.
We can certainly try a small test of that from home later today.
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:36 pmby Mj
Is the reason many sites end up turning off services like rss.
You can be killed with kindness you know !!!
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:02 pmby Nnnnsic
Yes...
Well, while ya'll compiled a list of things for us to change, we compiled lists of people we'd like to change.
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:01 pmby gstark
I've just added a couple of minor changes to the code that lets me see who is on an RSS feed. When I just checked, there were 7 guests reporting RSS feed as their page ...
I suspect I may have been correct, but only time will tell.
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:38 pmby leek
Well I had 2 RSS feeds running... One at home and one at work... However, they are both set to only update on an hourly basis... Would I still show up as a guest between those updates??
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:01 pmby gstark
The session remains alive for about 5 minutes, so no.
And while I have to support your decision to update on an hourly basis, I'm wondering how many messages you're missing. The feed provides the 15 most recent messages, and during busy times you might be underfeeding yourself and thus missing some messages.
Posted:
Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:52 pmby leek
gstark wrote:The session remains alive for about 5 minutes, so no.
And while I have to support your decision to update on an hourly basis, I'm wondering how many messages you're missing. The feed provides the 15 most recent messages, and during busy times you might be underfeeding yourself and thus missing some messages.
Aha... that would explain why I kept seeing replies, but not always the original message... I may have to reduce the update timing then... (sorry)