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Interesting ... Thu Feb 06 at16:33 local, 03:33 London, 2233 NY

Who's On Line?

1 hiker on line

[guess who]

... but then... 11 mins later, Only the 1 still showing but Prof & Baron at least, have eyes

Hmm

c'mon Pastey !

Eyes wide open, me. Been here for hours.
Not surprised it doesn't show though.
I am in low profile mode.

~jwf~

BTW: Happy Year of the Horse, all.

The Who's Online you see in Ripley doesn't work, hasn't worked for a long time, can't be fixed.

The Who's Online in Pliny triggers for each signed in user when they view a page in Pliny. This means that it's kept up to date for users in Pliny.

yeah, a bit like what I thought I should suspect - which is why I used Pliny !

Don't worry about it though - it wasn't a complaint, just curiosity after post 59/60 (Prof & Lanza)

The Ripley one is broke because it triggers each time a user's page is viewed. Regardless of who views it.

So you can got to a load of user's pages and the who's online will then show them all as being online. There was reasoning behind making it work like that, but I don't think it was put in properly, and then things moved on.

The new one we've got in Pliny works much better, and the majority of viewers of the site use Pliny. Plus we're currently bringing the older skins over to the new framework

Thanks Lanza and Pastey


pliny ? unknown to me

I know we bang on about it, but you really should try it.

You never know, you might like it

A question

How long to researchers stay on the online list after their last page call.

Ten minutes.

We did a bit of tweaking/testing on the time given so that it allowed people to read a full thread, or a longer entry, or pop off to make a up of tea without appearing to have gone offline.

That sounds about right to me.

Thanks for the explanations

I had played around with the Who's Online a bit, and wondered how it worked - seeing that people who posted 1 minute ago weren't listed, and other people were. I also was once somewhat puzzled when I looked at it and I wasn't on the list, but it all makes more sense now

I'm glad you winked Pastey

I joined hootoo in brunel and I ain't budged since or even contemplating it

err

I joined before Brunel even existed I even remember the advanced forums coming in, I think I'm getting old

But, as much as I love Goo the speed of Pliny makes it a lot easier to use, and now we've got most of the functionality over to Pliny it's getting better and better

sorry, yah can't temp me

you ain't old, tha's oni a bairn

PS

don't get me wrong, I 110% appreciate what you've all done for hootoobut I just don't like any other format

Feel free to stick to Brunel



For now

Ta!

>>Pastey:
I joined before Brunel even existed I even remember the advanced forums coming in, I think I'm getting old<<

I joined before Alabaster existed. What are advanced forums?

Advanced fora perhaps?

"The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city."