| How many are online? [message #26574] Tue, 26 April 2011 10:48 UTC |
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Hi all,
I've seen that now the homepage is displaying the number of visitors and members online.
For example, currently:
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Online
- 37 members
- 368 visitors
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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!
So many things to design, so little time...
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| Re: How many are online? [message #26595 is a reply to message #26577 ] Tue, 26 April 2011 22:24 UTC |
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@Magic, I noticed that too. Strange, isn't it?
Community Manager | Shapeways
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| Re: How many are online? [message #26596 is a reply to message #26574 ] Tue, 26 April 2011 22:49 UTC |
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@magic Thanks for pointing this out ! miss it too
http://www.3Dizingof.com
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| Re: How many are online? [message #26631 is a reply to message #26596 ] Wed, 27 April 2011 16:51 UTC |
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you mean it is pretty accurately 1:10 ratio as 37/(37+368)=9%
yes it does always seem to be 10:1
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| Re: How many are online? [message #27274 is a reply to message #26635 ] Tue, 10 May 2011 22:01 UTC |
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It seems that the number of visitors and members who are online has disappeared as quietly as it had appeared....
So many things to design, so little time...
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| Re: How many are online? [message #27276 is a reply to message #27274 ] Tue, 10 May 2011 22:54 UTC |
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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.
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| Re: How many are online? [message #27388 is a reply to message #27276 ] Thu, 12 May 2011 14:31 UTC |
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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
Community Manager Europe | Shapeways
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| Re: How many are online? [message #27410 is a reply to message #26574 ] Thu, 12 May 2011 18:21 UTC |
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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
Shapeways Front-End Product Lead
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