>>I have logged in about three times today and the main page has given the same number of users each time: 96. It's not a thing with my cache because this time I am logged in from home.
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>>Can we speculate about an 8 dozen problem? :)
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>I think it's obvious that Michel uses some kind of scheduled process to generate the default front page as a static, not dynamic page. There are so many statistics there, that performance would be an issue if it were "live" everytime someone hits it.
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>Or, perhaps it's really a "live" page, but gets its data from tables that are updated periodically by a scheduled process.
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>Or, perhaps he reverts to a static page when doing system maintenance or testing of new features, etc.
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>At any rate, right now at 12:30 pm Friday, the front page shows a total of 7 messages for the day, so something is obviously not getting updated on a very timely basis. (Someone needs to check the scheduled tasks, or restart some background app that fires from a timer).
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>Yup, the system apparently was just restarted (I got the "ERROR ...URL could not be retrieved" for a moment or two), and the front page is now updated from 7 messages to 161!

I usually look at this number when I log in so I think it is something that either was changed or it was a side-effect to some other change. My favorite answer for these side-effects is: It's a feature! :)