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Hi everyone,

I’m running a XenForo forum (Interfans.org) and I’ve noticed a rather unusual situation:

  • Around 1,600 guests online simultaneously
  • Only around 20 registered users online

I’m using Cloudflare, with some bots already blocked through custom firewall rules.

I’m wondering whether these guests are genuine visitors or whether a significant portion could be bots, AI crawlers or scrapers.

A few questions:

  1. Can unidentified bots appear as regular guests in...

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