That's not a page I visit very often! You can read the forums without being logged in; that user will show as Guest. Most of them are listed as Get RSS Feed, others as viewing a forum index or thread. Don't ask me how "Cannot get description because action is null" arises!

There's one guy who spend time scraping the signed in list, then posted dates of when the member was seen and maybe what threads, one reason to not sign in. Curiously, some from the ud era had an issue with members and community admins not signing in and accusing them of lurking or whatever. 10 years wcg and no cure found yet.

alged, you made me smile, but was taliking about the 'i spy' nsa wannnebe agents, for whom there's no cure.

Yes compute on, albeit at a slow pace. Found a chart showing a line starting in 2009, the active devices at wcg in last 30 days contributed about 14.4 hrs per day, up from 12 or so back then. With all those multicores having replaced the monos since then, an 'astoundingly disappointing' number. That is something to understand, not if someone is signed in or not, guests at 800 is a good number, at least not bad for mid holiday season.

Why there really are so many 'guests', well does not need much thought to arrive at them from your agent in-directly, the notices. There's 67000 active members and my tablet shows at this time 12 wcg news items of last 30 days, soon 13 as there's this transitioner issue and database pause. Once boinc connects to wcg, active or inactive, it calling home every few days, there's an alert. Peeps click on this, there's hope, and arrive at wcg to maybe read on a little on the problem discussion.

Anyway, don't ask the members, sent a mail to 'contact us'. Cuts the speculation really short.