Are you working on a publicly accessible site? Do you have any traffic logs able to confirm or deny visitors?

It is publically available. But I would be surprised that there is anyone going there. I am playing/learning so I have not told anyone about the site.

I guess I could view awstats from cpanel. I just wondered if that EasyDiscuss statistic was accurate or a number to give the illusion that the site is busy. (not that 28 users is busy! :+)

I think it was in VBBS you could 'inflate' the numbers.

Hi Chris,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

May i know which page you noticed got this online user statistic?

Check my screenshot below. Are you referring the Joomla user statistic?

I am talking about the "Board Statistics" on the main Easy Discuss Screen.

Total Posts: 1 Total Resolved Posts: 0 Total Unresolved Posts: 1
Total Users: 5 Latest Member: stackit
Online Users: 30 other guests

I wonder if they are spam bots...

Thank you,

My vote's on either spam bots or, if robots are allowed, search crawlers.

Hello Chris.

Sorry for the confusion. The number is actually showed when there are guest user (non-registered user) that are currently visiting on your site.

This board statistics will display like this, if someone login to your site. http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-07-06_1244.png

Hope this help