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  • Varine Varine:
    That was in hindsight hilarious but it was a big problem, and I doubt that server feels the same way about it. I should not have done that. They were really upset.
  • Varine Varine:
    I helped I think several people, but I helped everyone by just being the best. You're welcome
  • Varine Varine:
    But in reality I did help big boss get to have an easy day by taking charge of the day shift so she could have a family day or something. Both her kids are in college and are doing a what I understand to be very fucking cool, and both of them are back home now for a bit.
  • Varine Varine:
    They are always in different countries, it's actually really cool.
  • Varine Varine:
    And then I cheat on this one because it's the same thing, but there is never a day that goes by without someone that helps me. So I'm glad to live in a world where I can be helpful, but more importantly I can get help.
    +2
  • The Helper The Helper:
    2076 guests onlline lol now i want to turn it back on
  • The Helper The Helper:
    The bots are like look hey we are back... oh wait... they dont care if they can get to the site or not they still come. Internet traffic has changed that is for sure it is almost untrackable and 95 percent of it seems to be bots. Google does not see these as bots so they are counting on there pay stats and such it is totally corrupted.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    All that ad click tracking stuff and blocking bots from your clicks is total bullshit when I was running my businesses google ads the same IPs that here that are total bots are being counted there. Still to this day too. Someone needs to do something to filter the automated traffic. I think that forum add on did it but it just needs to happen at the cloudflare level, that click to make sure your not a bot would fix the stat disconnect from forum to site stats. Cloudflare could do that I am willing to pay more
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I cannot handle the forum add in because i can still see the bots in the site stats and that completely disconnects the forum from that.
  • Ghan Ghan:
    Forum add in? You mean the Anubis software?
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Anubis
  • Ghan Ghan:
    Nothing to do with the forum really. It's not clear to me why it would interfere with Matomo stats. Matomo collects stats through a javascript addition to the forum templates, and Anubis sits in front of all that.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Google analytics shows the same thing because I guess it is probably in the same spot as matomo
  • The Helper The Helper:
    The problem with Anubis is that the forum shows 0 visitors and no search bots but the stats shows no changes in the traffic. I cannot read stats like that because they are totally fake. That is the problem - the bots have pretty much wrecked my ability to properly read the site analytics for years now.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    It is like that everywhere I am sure
  • The Helper The Helper:
    at least on forums
  • Ghan Ghan:
    It looks to me like Matomo may already have bots filtered out, either by its own methods or via the bots just not executing javascript code.
  • Ghan Ghan:
    If you watch the members online list closely, you'll see that it is constant filled with guests who had activity "a moment ago" meaning within the last minute-ish. If that's the case all day long, and Matomo were truly tracking all that traffic, I'd expect to see 10s to 100s of thousands of views per day. Matomo is showing a few thousand pageviews per day at best.
  • Ghan Ghan:
    So I'd conclude that the bots are already (mostly) excluded from the Matomo stats.
    +1
  • Varine Varine:
    Happy Father's Day!
  • Varine Varine:
    I know a few of you are qualified for it
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Man it was a horrible fathers day for me we went out to eat and they forgot the dessert and we were just sitting there and mom started to ask me about whether or not we should get the check and I was not paying and it started to get like dealing with the manager who I had ordered the dessert from and he comes up and I said you can just take the desserts off and bring the check and stepped outside for some air. Mom has a different version and apparently I treated her bad and she wont accept my apology but Happy Fathers Day - hope everyone else had a great one
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Bad service from a manager just kills me the manager is what messed it up if he takes the order he cannot just tell someone to do it and walk away then ask surprised 15 minutes later when someone asks him about it and hes like you did not get that? Dude you took the order and we are just sitting here nobody even came back. Anyway, its a pet peve a manager did that at Chilis a few months back asked for a refill, he was like ok and left and never saw him again until the end when they pos was not working and i asked about the tea and he said - well I called for it and then walked away
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I hate bad service lol
  • The Helper The Helper:
    especially from a manager

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