Bogus? "Most users ever online was 38 on Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:19 pm"

[Dave in AZ]

"Most users ever online was 38 on Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:19 pm"

is being reported by the forum software today.
I think it's some kind of error, and not actually accurate. I was online here several times last night, looking at bullet's 410 thread and patterns and load info, between about 8pm and 10:30pm. Each time, I was the only registered user online other than the Google Bot. Once there were 2 guests online.

In fact, I would say that 99% of the times I am online here, once or twice a day looking to see if anyone has posted, I am the only registered user online besides the BOTs. Maybe twice in over a thousand visits have I seen another actual person logged in. So... not believing the 38 users all jumped on then off.

[Dave in AZ]

Yeah, something is nerfed...
Here's today's message at bottom of index page... note it says there were 41 folks online a few hours ago, but not a single post made since I did this one last night. Maybe the site is being used for hackers click thrus or something...

In total there are 3 users online :: 2 registered, 0 hidden and 1 guest (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 41 on Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:43 pm

[Fishh2o]

Some of these number are messed up since i have a list of bots I allow to crawl the site. The ones allowed will show up as registered and the ones i block will show as guest and only get the front page.

[manchap]

I come on here twice a day never see no one but i guess the time difference is the reason for that.

[bullet225ho]

I cruise through here maybe once a day...might skip a day...but I'm pretty regular. Just don't have a lot of new info to post.

[Dave in AZ]

Hmm... I guess it depends on how long the "snapshot" of "concurrent users" is. Since it says something like "6:47 pm" as the time there were 50 users on or whatever, I've assumed that actually means concurrently. However, if it gives credit for anyone who has logged in within 12 hours or so, well then maybe...
I come thru once or twice a day to see if bullet has posted some 410 tss magic lol. It's my "break from work" when I'm on the computer.