Hi all, I've seen that now the homepage is displaying the number of visitors and members online. For example, currently: I checked several times and it seems that the proportion between members and visitors is always - and rather acurately - around 10%. Funny fact, isn't it? Anyways, it is a very interesting information. Thank you Shapeways for adding it!
I saw this last week, I haven't been on much lately so I figured I either missed the update or just didn't notice it till now
It seems that the number of visitors and members who are online has disappeared as quietly as it had appeared....
maybe the function did not work. Though it is pretty easy to implement. Use a keep alive ajax call every 30 seconds to say you are still online. Server just needs to keep a database of the last 1 minutes worth of ajax calls, remove duplicates by ip and check session data for who is loged on. You can then use the return call on that same ajax function to keep the number up to date.
Hmm, that's odd. Let's see if we can bring it over to the Community homepage (the site homepage wasn't such a good spot for it, I guess). Bart
I never look at the community home page, always go straight to forum or blog. But I don't really need to know how many people are on. I can moderate as many as it takes
I wasn't happy with it, so I took it down for now. I'll think about ways to make it more interesting or bring it to a different part of the site at some point. -Ben