Is a member online or offline?

**glennybee** · 08-18-2008, 11:09 AM

Can anyone see anything to signify if a member is online or offline?

Maybe I'm missing it but I don't think so...

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-18-2008, 11:22 AM

who's online?
and you can on the member page, or you can use one of the non default styles and see in the post

**glennybee** · 08-18-2008, 12:39 PM

Ah OK Brandon, cheers m8.

Just wondered that's all.

**Caddyman** · 08-18-2008, 12:57 PM

who's online....still broke.

you can get there, but you have to manually refresh...

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-18-2008, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caddyman

who's online....still broke.

you can get there, but you have to manually refresh...

oooh ya, I remember you asking about that before

I fix that up for ya..

**ArnyVee** · 08-18-2008, 07:05 PM

I guess that you're working on the "Who's Online" Brandon. It shows that it's been disabled.

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-18-2008, 07:29 PM

ya, I just turned it off for now :p

**GL2814** · 08-20-2008, 06:36 AM

Why is who is online important? Does it really matter to you on your forums who is online and where in the forum they are?

Do you let members that are online hide their status from other members so that they "can't be seen?"

This I never understood either. Why would you want to go on a forum and hide and then post in threads? That just never makes sense to me.

**Caddyman** · 08-20-2008, 07:09 AM

Very rarely do i sit on WOL for snooping pruposes but i do get curious sometimes

mostly i use WOL while im at work. the auto refresh makes it easy for me to quick pop up the screen to see new posts and if im working it will flash in my taskbar if i get a PM.

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-20-2008, 08:50 AM

I should just give you guys all access to woopra

then you could see who's really online

**Soliloquy** · 08-20-2008, 10:00 PM

I use it to see how many current visitors are (probably) humans and how many are bots.

**Caddyman** · 08-21-2008, 03:33 AM

that is one useful way to use WOL. like when TD was new i expected the first page to be about 1/2 members and the rest guests and expected to be about 3 pages deep total guests, members, and bots (20 per page)

now often i see members go to the next page (20+) and WOL being 5 pages deep, that makes me smile.

**Soliloquy** · 08-21-2008, 07:46 AM

Pretty sweet Caddy, it's nice to see the list growing like that

**Caddyman** · 08-21-2008, 07:52 AM

it's funny cause that was just "my" thing i did, never really told people, then outta no where in a thread a member mentions that "who's online members went to the second page", i was crackin up!

**GL2814** · 08-21-2008, 08:08 AM

Does it concern anyone that they have all these guests in their WOL and no one registering?

**Caddyman** · 08-21-2008, 08:14 AM

Well yeah a lot of times the guests are searching for something specific in google, your site comes up, they go to your site, get their info, and leave. A lot of time what seems to be a guests is a non recognized SE spider of sorts, then SOME times you get someone looking for a site like yours that when they get there, they register.

it's a crap shoot, best thing to do is make your site the best and most welcoming as it can be.