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mindlessflight ([personal profile] mindlessflight) wrote in [community profile] anonrerising2025-05-21 03:03 am
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Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't really been active on FR for a while. I've been surprised to see the player count be 5000-8000 users. Back when I played, it was like 4000 users max. Today I checked the website around 20:00 FR Time and saw that there were over 11,000 users on. However, when I checked the active player count, I saw that it was over 10,000 visitors and only 1500 active users. I feel like that number is pretty low. Is FR dying and the amount of active players actually decreasing?

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
no.

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
You can set your account to invisible and it gets treated as another visitor btw.

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Not according to Mousemod. The guest counter is for IPs not logged in. Players set to invisible just don't show up on the list of active players. You can double check this by comparing the number of names in the list to the number given for logged in players.

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
The site is being swarmed by AI scrapers right now. A lot of those guests are bots. The actual number of people online hasn't decreased.

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
it seems part of the normal ebb and flow of the site: there's an activity that brings everyone online (festivals notn, dom fight with huge public buys payouts, new releases like the cirrus), and then it quiets down a bit until the next big event

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Active player count has always been a little over 1000 with the rest being bots and crawlers. The bot count has skyrocketed in recent years due to all the AI scrapers being unleashed on the web, and FR's guest counter is particularly sensitive to this, making it extra visible. Actual player counts have been pretty steady for years now.

Re: Is Flight Rising dying?

(Anonymous) 2025-06-07 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Was wondering when we'd see one of these comments. Been a while.

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