What is going on?

[CaughtOfLore]

There might be some kind of admin dashboard that shows that kind of thing - though I’m not an admin so couldn’t answer that for sure.

In each subsection of the forum “ENF Stories”, “ENM Stories” etc, you can see each thread’s “Views” next to each topic name. But that’s total views for the lifespan of the thread, so if you were trying to determine if there was a particular thread that was causing this traffic, that wouldn’t really tell you that.

You can see how many views an individual thread has had in the last 5 mins by going into that thread and scrolling to the bottom to where it says “Who is online”. Again though, if you were looking to pin the traffic down to a particular thread, it would require going into every thread on the forum separately to check that view count. My guess is that it’s pretty evenly spread throughout the site, but that a majority of those “visitors” are just attacks.

[Trundle]

Feels like every few months we get these bot attacks.

Someone is targeting this site and it's incredibly annoying.

[DrWhoFanJ]

I don’t think it’s necessarily related to any of the specifics discussed elsewhere in this thread, but it is getting a little frustrating how many times I click on a link to open a thread or a message (or anything at all, really) only to be presented with the login screen yet again. I have always ticked the "Remember me?" box and always will, yet it seems to be having no genuine effect as I keep getting randomly presented with that page again for no obvious reason.

[Darky]

Same problem. Very unhandy as moderator

[Executionus]

I don't have that issue at all on PC or phone. My best guess is that you two are blocking cookies and without cookies it can't keep you logged in.

[DrWhoFanJ]

I don't have that issue at all on PC or phone. My best guess is that you two are blocking cookies and without cookies it can't keep you logged in.

I have never blocked cookies even once. It does keep me logged in sometimes. I never said I need to log in after every tap onto any page; it only seems to trigger when I do something that triggers a check for what account is being used (such as opening the user control panel or thanking a post), and, even then, only if it’s been a few minutes since the last one.
Even just the act of opening the site for the first time today (as I’ve just done) didn’t trigger it; it seems to be completely random.

(Edit to add: Even posting that didn’t trigger anything!)

[Darky]

Me neither, because in general section it keeps me logged in. As soon as I go to the story part it logs me out