enabled AI bot in channel chat, there are a good number chat interaction with AI bot on the first day, noticed there is a big jump on “Anonymous users” in the pageviews chart. my guess, very likely it is related to the AI bot channel chat ? does this make sense counting as anonymous user ? thank…

Chat is not even enabled for anonymous, see: [image] Allow visitors and search engines to see chat channels Feature All channels have a URL. The quality of the content is not worse than in the topics. I think it’s time to add a setting to make them publicly available and …

Thanks Sam, that might be a coincidence, we turned on ai bot chat today. While, still , dont think that could be that many guest pageviews today… Thanks will dig into it

[image] Sam Saffron: Chat is not even enabled for anonymous, see I believe that’s not what they had meant, I think they were more asking if the AI bot itself (when used in chat by users) was causing anonymous pageviews.

Yes, thanks Firepup, i was wondering that, maybe when the ai bot retrieves messages in channel chat, that counts? Seems not, assuming it is done via the api … hmm

thanks, @Sam , got it, confirmed that too… from some bot, which is not identified as crawler

AI bot chat activities counted as anonymous users pageviews?

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sam (Sam Saffron) October 10, 2024, 8:28pm 6

Yeah it will not cause page views, the tools access the database directly via the backend

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AI bot chat activities counted as anonymous users pageviews?

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