> 1,020 Users Online (19 members and 1,001 guests)

hmmmmmm...there is something bad wrong with that "1,001 guests"..

well, i guess a bunch of them could be search engine crawlers,
spam-house eAddress harvesters, a few actual guests coming in to read
hits served up by google et al, and another few actual 'users'
trekking in via nntp (and therefore counted as 'guest'), like myself..

so, i reckon that the "users online" traffic count you quote suffers
from a skew similar to the "Forum Hits 30,000 Users!" (rather than
30,000 have signed up) metric which kicked off this thread..

and, i wonder where that "users online" count is taken? is it only in
forums.opensuse.org or is it instead everywhere within opensuse.org

there is a difference between "forum users" and a snapshot of web
domain hits..

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