This is neat. I always liked that feature that a lot of forums have where you can see what threads people are reading or posting in.

yea!

Should I waste some more time on this and list which bots are crawling the site too?

I've been aware of crawlers for a while, Google and YT tend to suck links out of here fairly quickly.

thats not useless, it explains a lot and lets the userbase know at least who (or what) is reading. either way, i think its pretty interesting that there is an interest for crawling the forum. thanks for your diligence!

hey i never even noticed the link right above the reply field! sorry for the silly request then, and thank you : )

You could click the chipmusic.org link in the breadcrumb. (Between the thread content and the reply field.) Or press the home button, if you're one of the people still using a computer with a keyboard.

can you put a "homepage" link at the bottom of the site so that you don't have to scroll all the way up and click the cm.o logo when at the bottom of a long thread? it would take two seconds to add.

Because of this thread I made probably the most useless update to cm.o so far, but it might still some people's curiosity. There's a text below the list of users on the right side of the page. This used to show only the number of guests and and logged-in members. It now also bots and spammers.
Explanation of the categories:

Guests: Users that are not logged in and also don't fall into any of the below categories.

Members: Logged-in users.

Bots: Sessions reported as coming from bots. These are mostly legitimate search engine crawler bots. This includes a certain ChipMusicHeartBitsSpidy, btw.

Bot dupes: I noticed that some crawlers (especially Yandex. Edit: I mean Baidu...) created a lot requests from different IP addresses which created a lot of unused sessions, which would sometimes boost the guests numbers really high. Those are now sorted as duplicates.

Spammers: This indicates that a session has been blocked by one of the various automatic spam detection methods in place on cm.o.

A session can only be in one category at a time.

Now you know.