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I've certainly assumed it was the "guests" (bots and/or crawlers) causing the issue. Right now there are ~4800 guests on the Downs, plus me; typically over the past few weeks this has been 6000+.
Based on the "Viewing" stats on the front page, ~1100 of those are just sitting on the front page. 1800 are squatting in Mirth, almost 1000 in Novices & Newcomers, and the rest are scattered across 9 or so other sub-forums, with no more than 300 in each.
There doesn't seem to be any pattern to which threads (if any!) they are squatting in; a look at Mirth shows that bigger threads have more views, but with no obvious spikes; I've just graphed the posts/views for a page of Mirth and it's pretty much a straight line.
I agree it's becoming unusable; I don't know what can be done about it.
hS
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