---
name: waving-hands-visitors
description: The Waving Hands visitors report — who is at the table right now, who came today and how far each duel got, and today's traffic. Use when Eric asks who has been playing, about new players or visitors, "anyone playing?", or wants a traffic report.
---

# Waving Hands visitors

One command, one screen, printed by the droplet. Read it for Eric like a
host glancing over the hall.

## Gather

    ssh root@159.203.98.71 waving-hands-visitors.sh [YYYY-MM-DD]

Default is today, UTC; Eric is in US Eastern, so an evening at his desk
spills into the next UTC day. Run yesterday too when the hour is early.

- **as of / live sockets / rooms touched in the last hour**: the "right
  now" line. One socket at a quiet hour is Eric.
- **traffic**: Caddy's access log for the day, bots split out by user
  agent, page requests by page (hall, play, rules) and room links opened,
  referrers and campaign tags. Single-player duels live in browsers, so
  a visit to /play is all the log shows of them.
- **players today / NEW today**: names seated in rooms created today;
  NEW means the name's first room ever is today.
- **rooms today**: one line each: time, code, humans vs bots, empty
  seats, state (lobby only / started, no turns / in play), turn count,
  span, and the last turn's time.

## Read it

Lead with new names and whether anyone is at the table now. Then, for
each stranger, say how far they got: a room that is "lobby only" never
filled its seats; "started, no turns" means they sat and left; a span of
a few minutes with a handful of turns is a duel tried; many turns is a
duel played. Eric's own names appear too (he plays as whatever he last
typed); do not count him as a visitor.