Topics seem to get lots of views imemdaitely

[God Of Thunder]

The number of views in the threads is due to this: Most Online Today: 4459.

There are many people who visit the forum and do not necessarily have an account. Some curious people looking for some kind of information, and also users who do not log in.

I still feel like this counter is not accurate. If it were, we would have seen some new faces every other day. But we do not see new people signing up and engaging with the community. The admin knows the truth. If the online counter is accurate but we are not getting new sign-ups, that is pretty sad.

What kind of bot would want to scrape altcoinstalks though? There is very little data to scrape here, unlike on some other forums, websites, and making lists. So it all just feels akttle paradoxical to me, as without processing the data and users consuming the data there is.no point running bots on the site.

I am aware of two or three posts scraper bots only. If those bots visit threads, it may count as views.

[Freemind]

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I still feel like this counter is not accurate. If it were, we would have seen some new faces every other day. But we do not see new people signing up and engaging with the community. The admin knows the truth. If the online counter is accurate but we are not getting new sign-ups, that is pretty sad.

New faces appear every day, although not as many as we would like. Not all guests register on the forum on the first visit, some do so after a while. Other users register their account and take weeks or even months to write their first post, and there are other users who have been registered for months and have never written anything.

Since January 1, 124 new accounts have been registered on the forum until today.

[Gposas]

I have observed something similar various times, I was feeling it is the forum moderators and admin that views the topic once posted to review it. Then maybe other users in the forum gets to view them.

Also a topic gets more viewers than comments.
I never found it alarming or bringing to topic.

And also, I noticed that everytime you enter a particular thread in a day, it counts it's views...
Like if you view a topic 3times In 3days, it'll increase the views by 1 everyday.

I can't tell if anyone has observed this?

[Freemind]

I have observed something similar various times, I was feeling it is the forum moderators and admin that views the topic once posted to review it. Then maybe other users in the forum gets to view them.

Also a topic gets more viewers than comments.
I never found it alarming or bringing to topic.

And also, I noticed that everytime you enter a particular thread in a day, it counts it's views...
Like if you view a topic 3times In 3days, it'll increase the views by 1 everyday.

I can't tell if anyone has observed this?

This is how the forum is configured, I don't know if it is by default or because the administrator has configured it that way. Anyway, what you say is normal. There are many users who read a thread and do not participate, or participate another day, sometimes that happens to me. But we still have to keep in mind, even though it may not seem like it or the change is not very radical, that little by little we are noticing that more and more users are participating in the forum. That, in addition to more traffic and more posts, also means more views on threads.