Active Users

[MainFrame]

Hi DragonByte,

I have another suggestion..

I noticed when I increase my timeout time the username stays in the active users list longer. and the effect it has on my site is that more people join the chat as it looks more active. they also stay longer so it actually becomes more active when you increase the timeout.

At the moment users who haven't posted a shout are not counted as active users.
My suggestion is to count all users as active for who the shoutbox is refreshing. so when someone clicks to resume activity their name should be in the active user list.
I think this will have the same effect as increasing the timeout.

Regards,
MainFrame

 

[Fillip H.]

The problem with doing that is that it requires a special "shoutbox last active" field, which is what I was hoping to avoid.
However, over the course of development, I've made changes that might make that argument invalid.

Ill discuss it with Deceptor and see what he says, maybe it'll make it for v5.2


EDIT: It seems that the current method is the most performance-efficient way of doing it. I'll look into ways to change it in the future without sacrificing performance, though