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Who's online.

Okay - if its quite easy to have a who's online page, and its quite easy to have an ICQ online/offline thing. So how about an "I'm online" thing in the forum - like in the threads... Where you have the:

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Bit at the side - could we have like a little green/red button type affair to show whether that person was looking at the boards or not at the time - maybe it could be a clickable link that took you to the "Who's Online" page or something

Red and green are not essential btw - we could have some cool ass icon or soemthing

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good suggestion, well I like it at least

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hoorah for good ideas

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I like it! Makes lurking a hell of alot easier

Ok, perhaps I should have said:

Makes finding your favorite posters easier?

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I just checked into SPF earlier for the first time in a week, at least, and noticed he has recently added that feature. My reaction was, "Cool! I didn't even know you can do that!"

In any case, I know we have been looking into the Who's Online feature for awhile now, one of the other guys who knows more about such things can get in here and better answer about the status of that. But I think it is pretty much a consensus that such a feature should be installed. (edit: I don't mean the new gadget Stile installed, I mean the generic Who's Online page that says guest #17 and such)

Although, just as a disclaimer of sorts, as we are working on another big project regarding the mainpage, a lot of this other forum tweaking stuff has been neccessarily put on the back burner.

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i had not actually seen the one stile had - but i have now - the idea was mine mine mine - only stile did it first...

but yeah pretty much like he has got there...

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I can answer at least part of this:

The ICQ button-type feature was on SPF even before we migrated, though it may have disappeared for a while. Here's my understanding of why it may not be desirable ...

Whenever someone posts in a thread, then, and only then, is the entire thread reconstructed and the html regenerated. In order for every thread you open to have a current "who's lurking" status on every person, it would have to be rewritten upon every page view. Not good - slows down load time and adds load to the processor (as well as the "cost" of doing those lookups every time the page is recreated). I'm sure there's a way to just handle it using dhtml, but Dingle will have to answer that.

And about Paint's disclaimer: the Dingleator3000 is indeed maxed out at 23 hours per day. He's also a bit under the weather atm ... get well soon!!

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*makes Dingle some chicken soup*

hoorah for Dingle, without him we'd all die.

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I dont want anyone to know how much I lurk.

I was never here, I did not post.

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The load time that MstrG was talking about could be a hassle. Those of who were in SPF remember how slow it got at times and is still slow on occasion. We don't want slow, now do we?

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No, and get away from my cookies, dammit.

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Well, if you can construct something similar to the same way ICQ identifies a user's status online via an image (gray/green flower), that would work well.

Of course, is there a way to even add in that symbol underneath the points when a post goes up, for those that have ICQ?


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I'm still trying to figure out the importance of this little beauty. If the person has ICQ, is a "friend" of yours and is on your list, you will know when they are online, no?

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Slow is bad, but voyeurism is good.

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i don't like the idea. i lurk on here constantly, and people are always messaging me when i'm not home, then getting pissed because i didn't put an "i'm not here" message on the goddamnable AIM. people will know if i'm on if i'm posting, right? obviously, if i'm not responding, i either don't care enough to talk to them anyway, or i'm not there.
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Originally posted by Joeycat:
I'm still trying to figure out the importance of this little beauty. If the person has ICQ, is a "friend" of yours and is on your list, you will know when they are online, no?

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mikes right, cant be done (efficiently at least). Could be done with SSI, but that would mean when you click a thread youre not only loading an html file, youd be running a script for every post on the page, which would not only wreak havok on the server it would be much slower to load threads.

stiles version of whosonline is a possiblity, but looks like itd be alot of work, and its not something im gonna do anytime soon.

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It's a voyeur thing Joey ... I can provide other examples if you like.

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But instead of having "whos online" icons in the posts under the names themselves, would it run any better with just a separate "whos online" page listing the members currently browsing, much like stile had before he started his recent Javascript remodeling?
(btw, I am not very proficient in this sort of stuff, this is just my 10 cents )

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The load time that MstrG was talking about could be a hassle. Those of who were in SPF remember how slow it got at times and is still slow on occasion. We don't want slow, now do we?

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*Pokes RM with a pointy stick*

I said no dammit. NO, no, no, no!

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quote:

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...would it run any better with just a separate "whos online" page listing the members currently browsing...

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Yeah, what he said.

And BTW, I edited my previous post. When I said it is pretty much a consensus, I was referring not to Stile's new gadget, but the old Who's Online page.

But again, I kindly refer you to my disclaimer.

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quote:

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Originally posted by aminal:
Okay - if its quite easy to have a who's online page, and its quite easy to have an ICQ online/offline thing. So how about an "I'm online" thing in the forum - like in the threads... Where you have the:

aminal
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Bit at the side - could we have like a little green/red button type affair to show whether that person was looking at the boards or not at the time - maybe it could be a clickable link that took you to the "Who's Online" page or something

Red and green are not essential btw - we could have some cool ass icon or soemthing

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can you please explain to me the purpose of this handy dandy little gadget? i'm not trying to sound like a smart ass, i'm serious. i have a dsl connection, and i'm sure there's lots of other people who stay connected for hours on end also. what's so hard about just AIMing people, e-mailing, checking the chat room, refreshing and seeing who's been posting the past 30 min.s? this has to be the laziest and most useless feature i've ever heard of.
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I don't like it either.
I like to lurk.

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