"who's chatting on ats" box inacurate?

I've been noticing lately, that the "whos chatting on ats box" is like 5 mins behind, when I eneter the chat, its alway different people than it says in the box. Is this some kind of error due to the traffic or what?


~Shadow

I believe its always been like that. I asked that question before and they said it takes 5 minutes to clear off.

The information at the bottom of the board home page is generated every once every 10 minutes, rather than each page-load for every user. Generating the data every page-load for every user has been a significant server load (remember, we often get over 400 simultaneous users on the board).