Did I miss something yesterday?

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Pete P posted this thread on the 10th, I'm guessing it triggered an alarm somewhere in Mr Langdell's lawyers' offices... ;)
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I've 'bigged up' (is that still a thing? :lol: ) this place a few times over on /r/zxspectrum, but none correlate to the recent spikes. Odd stuff and definitely interested to know what has driven it.. But we all know it'll ultimately be something really mundane!
Place your bets..
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Thank you for the mentions. It's all good stuff and appreciated [mention]DouglasReynholm[/mention]
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Some organizations "patrol" the web harvesting for information, and some of them use people instead of robots. So you can get a visitor peak.
Trying not to be too paranoid :lol: but this site was (is?) blocked last year by my ISP on my country...
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Sometimes it's really scary when I read:

Registered Users: Bing [bot], Juan F. Ramirez, Google [bot]

Then I feel like I'm alone here with those weird bots! :lol:
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We hit another high on Monday. 393! Might have to start asking for small donations for a bigger server at this rate!
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Just realized that Wikipedia include the corresponding SC link of many games in his 'external links' entry section. For example, in Knight Lore. Sometimes include a Mobygames or KLOV link too.

Maybe that's another reason of the number of visitors.

And of course it's also a reason to see this site works! Congrats!
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 5:06 pm Sometimes it's really scary when I read:

Registered Users: Bing [bot], Juan F. Ramirez, Google [bot]

Then I feel like I'm alone here with those weird bots! :lol:

Registered users: cha05e90, Juan F. Ramirez


Me, too. :mrgreen:
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cha05e90 wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 11:50 am
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 5:06 pm Sometimes it's really scary when I read:

Registered Users: Bing [bot], Juan F. Ramirez, Google [bot]

Then I feel like I'm alone here with those weird bots! :lol:

Registered users: cha05e90, Juan F. Ramirez


Me, too. :mrgreen:
You're absolutely right! :lol:
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You do understand that members can hide being logged in, don’t you?

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1024MAK wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:52 pm You do understand that members can hide being logged in, don’t you?

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That option is currently turned off.
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PeterJ wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:15 pm
1024MAK wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:52 pm You do understand that members can hide being logged in, don’t you?

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That option is currently turned off.
Ahh, as I never use it, I hadn’t noticed :lol:

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A new record:

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Most users ever online was 441 on 15 Jan 2020, 17:21
*clap*clap*clap*
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:39 am A new record:

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Most users ever online was 441 on 15 Jan 2020, 17:21
I noticed that too. Great!
DouglasReynholm wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 10:53 pm ...definitely interested to know what has driven it.. But we all know it'll ultimately be something really mundane!
Place your bets..
I bet it's some 'blue skies' computer conference somewhere, that happens to be called "Spectrum computing". All the delegates are googling it and coming here hoping to find out where the conference centre is.
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R-Tape wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:05 am
I bet it's some 'blue skies' computer conference somewhere, that happens to be called "Spectrum computing". All the delegates are googling it and coming here hoping to find out where the conference centre is.
When the delegates came across the memes thread they inmediately left the conference and any technologic way of life and started a new life as hippies living in the country, smelling daisies and producing cheese from goat milk.
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All I can tell you is that there appear to have been 9,000 clicks in the last week from the USA. The logs are say click from video. Can't tell anymore.
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:33 am When the delegates came across the memes thread they inmediately left the conference and any technologic way of life and started a new life as hippies living in the country, smelling daisies and producing cheese from goat milk.
Is this what happened to you then, Juan? ;)
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Found this:

https://b3ta.com/links/1531351
Super-small isometric chess display engine
A journey from 924 bytes down to nearly 500! An interesting forum thread, even for the non-technical.
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Joefish wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:20 pm Found this:

https://b3ta.com/links/1531351
Super-small isometric chess display engine
A journey from 924 bytes down to nearly 500! An interesting forum thread, even for the non-technical.
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Yes, I posted that over on b3ta. It even hit the front-page! Mind you, I only noticed an increase of about 80 in the thread's view count a little while after. I doubt it's got that much to do with the volume of traffic (I might be wrong though).
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DouglasReynholm wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:48 pm
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:33 am When the delegates came across the memes thread they inmediately left the conference and any technologic way of life and started a new life as hippies living in the country, smelling daisies and producing cheese from goat milk.
Is this what happened to you then, Juan? ;)
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A new record two days ago, 582 on 19 Oct 2020, 08:36!!!

Too many people, social distance, please!!! ;)

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And the most surprising thing is the time, 08:36 (GMT+1, I suppose)
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If it was 07:36 GMT I would've probably still been asleep...
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:17 am A new record two days ago, 582 on 19 Oct 2020, 08:36!!!

Too many people, social distance, please!!! ;)

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