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Search engine bots, or 'web crawlers' that visit the site and attempt to harvest data from it. Google, Bing, Facebook etc. In order to validly crawl the forum's data, they often authenticate themselves with forum software so they aren't assumed to be malicious.

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Those are most likely what the users are using to view LTT

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Search engine bots, or 'web crawlers' that visit the site and attempt to harvest data from it. Google, Bing, Facebook etc. In order to validly crawl the forum's data, they often authenticate themselves with forum software so they aren't assumed to be malicious.

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"They're crawlers for SEO.. " -Windspeed36

 

I asked Windspeed this some time ago in a private message. Just google SEO

export PS1='\[\033[1;30m\]┌╼ \[\033[1;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[1;30m\] ╾╼ \[\033[0;34m\]\w\[\033[0;36m\]\n\[\033[1;30m\]└╼ \[\033[1;37m\]'


"All your threads are belong to /dev/null"


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Have you purposely tried to make your text hard to read?

 

Nope.

export PS1='\[\033[1;30m\]┌╼ \[\033[1;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[1;30m\] ╾╼ \[\033[0;34m\]\w\[\033[0;36m\]\n\[\033[1;30m\]└╼ \[\033[1;37m\]'


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Oh nevermind, it's the dark theme I'm using :P

 

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How do you change theme

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