Why are there so many guests looking at pages?

[Light]

Sometimes I go back and reread some old stuff, old roleplays from years ago I still have archived, to get a kick out of those good times. But I've noticed that when I do, not only the top of the page say "1 user" and my name, but also some number of guests viewing the page as well. I was just referencing my old old cs list from like 8 or 7 years ago, and it has 5 guests looking at it. I don't really mind since it's in the public channels but like, who are these people? And how are they finding threads and posts that are almost as old as the site itself?

[Carlyle]

Sometimes I go back and reread some old stuff, old roleplays from years ago I still have archived, to get a kick out of those good times. But I've noticed that when I do, not only the top of the page say "1 user" and my name, but also some number of guests viewing the page as well. I was just referencing my old old cs list from like 8 or 7 years ago, and it has 5 guests looking at it. I don't really mind since it's in the public channels but like, who are these people? And how are they finding threads and posts that are almost as old as the site itself?

@Light

A) They're actual people hidden by ghost mode or just not logged in.
B) They're bots that scrape or scan web pages, like Google's.

Probably the latter more than likely. @LegendBegins can probably say more on this.

[aia2022]

@Light
the spirits of our ancestors who came before, those who had intricately weaved the tales we take inspiration from /j

I do believe @Kuro is right though. Or maybe there’s a random horde of people who dig through roleplay sites for some good long tales and end up bored so they start looking through the other stuff on the site idk

[LegendBegins]

Yeah, what I can say is...

I have absolutely no idea! I've gotten this question before, but it's a weird phenomenon if it's happening on old pages. Could be a glitch with how the site calculates viewers, could be scrapers, could be a number of things.

[Light]

Shrug! Fair enough.