I'm not obsessed with this .... I just notice stuff

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Don't think it's AI scraping for info because the active users aren't on a forum ... they just park on the main page. More like a DoS attack ... and yep, they cripple the site at times.
I PM'd Nostatic and Z-man ... I'm sure they care

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The 9-10K "active users" for several days was twice the previous "high water" counts I have ever observed.
As a former IT "infrastructure" guy ... this crap annoys me ....
But not that much