[Denim]

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

 

[cosmopragma]

"Active" means : currently online.
Head-fi does have 20k or 30k members, I've lost track long ago. Quote:

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.

 

[gsteinb88]

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.

 

[Denim]

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.

 

[PinkFloyd]

An active guest is a guest that's dancing about in his living room

 

[mbriant]

Quote:

An active guest is a guest that's dancing about in his living room

That's a hyper-active guest.