03-20-2025, 09:17 PM
Yes, and a possible reason is among some of those 300+ guest users. It appears a number of companies or organizations around the world are scraping content from various online forums and not using established spider or robot accounts. I saw this on the forum I admin over the weekend, 500-700+ guest users with multiple connections from IP blocks that identify them as from places like Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, Meta, Huawei Cloud, Google, and so on. That forum is back down to around 150 "guests", not so slow now. Some of these actually have defined bot accounts, so not sure why they are using the additional connections for.