Net54baseball Public Service Announcement - Forum Technical Issues Update

[Leon]

I want to give an update about the system software on the forum. I received a few questions concerning accessing the front page. Since the bots were taking over a few weeks ago, I have been tinkering with settings to try to help. As of now, I believe you need to be logged in to see the front page. We will be working on some settings this week to try to alleviate these issues. During this time something could go wacky . Hang in there. It's like going to the dentist..not real fun but you usually feel better when it's done. Even right now, if you click on the "Net54baseball.com Forums" words on the upper left you will see about 83 active users and about 17000 (bots) viewing the forum. That isn't good. Last week it went up to about 77000 viewers and the site was almost unusable. I have spoken with many people about what to do, that won't wreck the look of the forum, and I don't have a good solution yet. It's being worked on. I will stick this for a while to make sure everyone knows what is going on. I got a lot of rave reviews concerning the forum at the National, so that was encouraging. One other thing, the forum viewer-counters are not at all accurate. It might say there are 5 people viewing the forum when there is 80-100...
Thanks for everyone's patience.