h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Alabaster. Does it actually work? I've just seen several people online, who haven't posted in many years, including Douglas Adams himself.

Perhaps there's a bug?

Oh and Alabaster. Chrome. Mac.

Hi, Peta. It's nice to see you on the site.

Unfortunately, viewing a personal space triggers the online eyes for the owner of that space. It's on our list of documented bugs.

It's been a bug for a very long time, possibly since Natalie's stewardship. Sam's certainly.

Long before I was allowed to press buttons...

... SooOOooo... 'snot my fault!


lil xx

Looking at the code it seems to have started not long after the single sign-on was brought in. The flag to say someone's on line is set when their homepage is visited, and someone thought that seeing as they go there after signing in that'd be okay. Which doesn't work.

So, I'm afraid that the only way really to see who's on line is to look at the front page of Pliny and see who's talking in the forums.


Hiya by the way

You've missed a trick here, Pastey - it's a one-line code change.

Replace the characters "Online Now" with "Someone's just viewed my Personal Space"

There's a thought...

ackshully i have a tendency to pay attention to these kinds of things
and i noticed that the discrepancies didnt really start until around our leaving bbc


now that i think about it...

onset of burlesque?

yessssssss


maybe your code info says differently but that is what i noticed in real space...