that "statistic" is sooooo misleading
it's just a "humanized" version of conveying:
the phpbb script handling refracta.freeforums.org has recieved http requests from 28 distinct IP addresses during the past 5 minutes
Yeah, no one is logged in (hold that thought) and...
21 of the page requests were placed by bots/crawlers, and 7 were pings received to check rss feeds.
0 registered users online? Were you not logged in when you read that statistic?
Because many of the forums I visit feature scrolling chat windows and I pay zero attention to those...
...I've learned the hard way (people trying to chat jumping to conclusion that I'm ignoring/snubbing them, personally)
to }}UserControlPanel}}Hide my online status.
FWIW, at the moment, I'm seeing
In total there is 1 user online :: 0 registered, 1 hidden and 0 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Don't be bored! Get a puppy!
All that crouching, to clean up puddles n ****, it's great exercise....