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What is an active guest?

post #1 of 6
4/9/06 at 11:01pm
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Currently Active Users: 852 (387 members and 465 guests)
There are more guests than members! Does the server track each guest and they are dropped as active if they don't visit within a certain time? How long?
Just curious
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post #2 of 6
4/9/06 at 11:24pm
"Active" means : currently online.
Head-fi does have 20k or 30k members, I've lost track long ago.
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Does the server track each guest and they are dropped as active if they don't visit within a certain time?
I guess the server tracks each browser that's currently connected to the website, and members are identified by cookies.
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post #3 of 6
4/9/06 at 11:25pm
It is also possibly done by IP address. IIRC, guests include people not registered, and serach engines crawling the site. On some forums, there is a list, ill try to find it on this one.
-g
EDIT: Apparantly, you need admin privelages to see it on this site. In any case, i checked on another forum, and guests do indeed include search engines crawling.
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post #4 of 6
4/10/06 at 12:41am
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I didn't expect active to mean on-line, but I think you're right.

When the main page had this:
Currently Active Users: 891 (396 members and 495 guests)
I added up the viewers for each forum and got 701. Not a perfect match, but close enough for the web. I suspect multiple pages could throw off the numbers a bit.

The posters count must be much lower, maybe 100 or so.
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post #5 of 6
4/10/06 at 1:13pm
An active guest is a guest that's dancing about in his living room
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post #6 of 6
4/10/06 at 1:19pm
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An active guest is a guest that's dancing about in his living room
That's a hyper-active guest.
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