Community Chat

[GingerPeach]

Usually this board has about 1000 -2000.  Right now (2:33 p.m. Pacific) there are over 5000.

Not sure what that means.  

[jaxs mom]

Maybe people have a lot of extra windows open? I know I often just scroll through the new threads list opening posts in new windows as it's faster 

[Shawnie]

where do you see the number?

[SHIRAZ]

My guess is that it is tracking the traffic on the entire website - shopping as well as the boards.  (Since you never really leave the shopping site to come to this area.)  Guess people are shopping (or at least looking!)

[SHIRAZ]

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@Shawnie wrote:

where do you see the number?

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The opening page of "Blogs and Forums" - the one with the turquoise lettering on the thread titles.  Lower left-hand side.  It shows #### online now, and under that it shows 5 avatars of people that are online.  (If you are signed in, the first one is always your own.)

[ChynnaBlue]

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@JAXS Mom wrote:

Maybe people have a lot of extra windows open? I know I often just scroll through the new threads list opening posts in new windows as it's faster 

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I do the same thing! If you log in first, it knows they're all you. If you forget and open a dozen windows or tabs before logging in, it may or may not use the IP address or a cookie to recognize them all as belonging to one person - I'm not sure.

I also usually have the main forum window in an open tab in the background all day long, even if I'm doing other things and don't look at it for 3 hours.

[LTT1]

@GingerPeach

The "extras" are "prying eyes" of entities that are not registered with the Q... (guests)... I believe these are software programs "combing" thru the posts for key words that might apply to products they are selling.  ie: if your post mentions purses, then you would get pop-up ads for different purse companies (or depression/anxiety medicine, etc)

[GingerPeach]

The numbers are right now shown (3:49 p.m. Pacific) as:

Showing Members Online: (1 - 11 / 341) (4,853 Guests Online)

Members - 341

Guests - 4853

It makes sense that the guests are shoppers who are not logged in, since you don't need log in to either view the products or the boards.

However, it's even more clear that these boards have a very skimpy number of members online at any one time.  Only 341 right now.  That seems very low.  And maybe these numbers should let posters know that their voices are tiny in comparison to those who buy "mass quantities" of any particular product, or complain about hosts, or voice any other number of issues here.

[blackhole99]

Back before all the censorship there were thousands of members signed into the boards. A couple hundred members signed into the boards is nothing, too bad.

[Sweetbay magnolia]

I often scan these boards and browse the product offerings without signing in.  If I want to reply or start a post, or buy something, I'm automatically redirected to the sign in page, and then I conduct business.  I don't see the need to sign in everytime I simply "look".