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b-engine wrote: August 16th, 2025, 8:08 am There are probably tons of abandoned forums with no active users. But I don't know if you meant those forums with very few active users (probably not one or two).
No I mean the like the ConwayLife.com section, containing Website Discussion, LifeWiki Discussion and Bugs & Errors.
No, I meant the sections of forums you can see on the board index.

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Resu wrote: August 16th, 2025, 8:22 am
b-engine wrote: August 16th, 2025, 8:08 am There are probably tons of abandoned forums with no active users. But I don't know if you meant those forums with very few active users (probably not one or two).
No I mean the like the ConwayLife.com section, containing Website Discussion, LifeWiki Discussion and Bugs & Errors.
No, I meant the sections of forums you can see on the board index.
It's subforum.
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b-engine wrote: August 16th, 2025, 8:08 am
Resu wrote: August 16th, 2025, 7:45 am What's the least active forum? Is it ConwayLife.com?
There are probably tons of abandoned forums with no active users. But I don't know if you meant those forums with very few active users (probably not one or two).
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What caused this to happen?
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What do bots do? Whenever I check who's online, I see Bing [Bot]. I've seen it reading different topics but I still have no idea what it does.

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I6_I6 wrote: August 30th, 2025, 1:43 am What do bots do? Whenever I check who's online, I see Bing [Bot]. I've seen it reading different topics but I still have no idea what it does.
This question has been asked before on this thread, and answered. To provide good search results, search engines like Bing need to know what's out there on various web pages.

Recently, large language models have started thinking they need to know even more, like the RLE on every soup page that Catagolue serves up. So there have been a lot of bots making an appearance lately.
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Someone did make a joke bot once. [Spider] is also a category, and at one point there was both "C/5 [Spider]" (an obvious reference to the CGOL pattern) and "Baidu [Spider]" (just as evidence that it's an actual category and not just a one-off bot-looking but human-produced identifier).
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Haycat2009 wrote: August 30th, 2023, 7:44 am

Why are there weirder and weirder bots every time? An hour ago, I saw "Mr Turtle facts [Bot]" and last week I saw "Baidu [Spider]" and "C/5 [Spider]". I also saw "Minibot [Bot]". Can you tell me what is going on???
They are accidental.
So what do they do? I know that Baidu is to gather information for the Baidu search engine, but what are "Mr Turtle facts [Bot]" "C/5 [Spider]" and "Minibot [Bot]" supposed to gather info for?
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Periods discovered:

All evens ≤128 except 52,58,78,82,92,94,98,104,118,122

5-15,㉕-㉛,㉟㊺,51,63,65,73,75
1㊳㊵㊹㊼㊽,54,56,72,74,80,90,92
217,240,300,486,576

Guns: 20,21,32,54,55,57,114,117,124,126
SKOPs: 32,74,76,102,196
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A very basic question, but what decides the order of topics showing up in a forum? It changes all the time.

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I6_I6 wrote: September 9th, 2025, 2:23 pm A very basic question, but what decides the order of topics showing up in a forum? It changes all the time.
Pinned threads first, then the rest are sorted by timestamp of the most recent post.
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Periods discovered:

All evens ≤128 except 52,58,78,82,92,94,98,104,118,122

5-15,㉕-㉛,㉟㊺,51,63,65,73,75
1㊳㊵㊹㊼㊽,54,56,72,74,80,90,92
217,240,300,486,576

Guns: 20,21,32,54,55,57,114,117,124,126
SKOPs: 32,74,76,102,196
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FIRST BOT TO DOWNLOAD A FILE, CONFIRMED:
Who is online wrote: Username: Bing [Bot]
Forum location: Downloading file
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What does Bing [Bot] do?
What is it for?
Why do we have it?
Please visit my rules (found on my wiki page) and contribute!
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ThePlayzr wrote: October 3rd, 2025, 7:59 am What does Bing [Bot] do?
What is it for?
Why do we have it?
I'm assuming it's the crawler for the Bing search engine.
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Is the home page supposed to be centered? Because it isn't:
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muzik wrote: October 14th, 2025, 12:08 pm Is the home page supposed to be centered? Because it isn't:
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The full page:
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For the record, things look fine on PC:
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Things on Samsung Internet look even stranger:
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Can forum and LifeWiki search be changed so that British spellings are conflated with American spellings? (for example searching for "colour" will also return results for "color")
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I think we need a "Miscellaneous website discussion thread" for those topics that aren't significant enough to warrant a thread, but doesn't fit anywhere else.
I can't find any fitting thread, so I have to post here.

Anyway, I'm mad that some of the entries in profile settings are outdated (AOL, Google+ and Skype are discontinued, Twitter is renamed to X) and never updated:
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b-engine wrote: February 12th, 2026, 9:40 am some of the entries in profile settings are outdated (AOL, Google+ and Skype are discontinued, Twitter is renamed to X) and never updated:
I don't really see the issue with having some outdated settings like those. Updating to keep current sounds like more work than its worth for settings that virtually nobody ever used in the first place.
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Sokwe wrote: February 16th, 2026, 3:36 am [Updating to keep current sounds like more work than its worth for settings that virtually nobody ever used in the first place.
I think removing them would be easier, but I can't know who within the ~60 active users will be angry at this change.
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b-engine wrote: February 16th, 2026, 4:13 am I can't know who within the ~60 active users will be angry at this change.
I don't think anyone would be angry with their removal. I just think it would be an unproductive use of Nathaniel's time. They don't cause any sort of problem, so there's nothing wrong with just leaving them in place.
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B468S02357 wrote: April 5th, 2026, 2:54 am Why are mods's usernames green?
Those belong to the moderators group, which grants whoever in it mod privileges and color their usernames to distinguish them from others.
For Nathaniel (the creator send admin of the site), that's maroon because he's in the admin group.
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Is there a way to ctrl+v a screenshot?

Or is the only way to save locally and use file upload?

I wanted to report bogus notification, but now that I think about it it's probably some admin secret thread leak

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by the way, hover text for image and link buttons use http link - maybe it's worth updating to https? ;​)
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Why is catalog's website catatalogue.hatsya.com instead of catalogue.com
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