Who's Online

[SkeLeton]

Just asking, but why has the Who's online feature been disabled for us regular users? It appears now as restricted access.
I doubt it's because of security issues, because IP addresses were not shown for regular users.
Mabye you don't know that this feature is quite usefull for the low traffic hours in which anybody can see since when have other users been active.

Well that's just my question, hope you admins can answer it.

 

[Budgie]

Yeah, I was wondering about that yesterday. I just figured I'd been neglected the feature for some reason. Please, open it up again.

 

[Tranplanner]

I can still see it I'm not sure what happened to it - as far as I know, there was no concious decision made to get rid of it...

 

[el Guapo]

ditto TP. I'll look in to it.

 

[Jeff]

I see it too....maybe the stuff's starting to kick in ...

 

[Budgie]

Not working for me.

 

[Cardinal]

Appears to be working just fine for me.

 

[Plannerbabs]

Yup, I can see it too. Hi, everybody!

 

[Plannerbabs]

Ooh, that was #250. Already 1/4 of the way to the clube!

 

[Rumpy Tunanator]

Terror Level Bert- I'm scared now, Bert is evil.

 

[tsc]

I see cyburb people......

 

[biscuit]

Nope, not working for me either.

It says that I don't have access, that I'm not special enough...

 

[el Guapo]

I looked. I can not fix it. We can get along with out it for a while, I suspect.

 

[Jeff]

I looked. I can not fix it. We can get along with out it for a while, I suspect.

Speak for yourself dammit! We NEED to know! NEED to know who is out there man!

 

[NHPlanner]

Speak for yourself dammit! We NEED to know! NEED to know who is out there man!

Why? Most of you are invisible anyway....well invisible to most.

 

[steveanne]

I am also a blind cyburbian.

 

[Richmond Jake]

I am also a blind cyburbian.

Too much lacrosse?

 

[Rem]

If you are referring to the listat the bottom of the "Thread Home" page - I can still see it.

 

[SkeLeton]

If you are referring to the listat the bottom of the "Thread Home" page - I can still see it.

I'm refering to This.
It SHOULD take you to a page that shows (more or less in somewhat detail) what other online users are doing and at what hour they were last active.
It wouldn't be strange that it only affects normal users, and mods, supermods, and admins can see it...
AFAIK On other forums if you're a mod you can also see the users IP addresses.
Anyways, thanks to EG for having the will to look at it

 

[el Guapo]

Can anyone other than a moderator see the IP's? If so please reply.

Thanks

 

[Richmond Jake]

I don't see any IPs.

 

[Rem]

Thanks SkeL I see what everyone is talking about now. I've never been there before B-).

eG sorry for the confusion - I see nothing at the place SkeL defined.

 

[Zoning Goddess]

I tried to access Skel's link and I am now a bad person: I do not have the authority to access that link. Waaaahh!

What was it, anyway??

 

[JNL]

A useful feature

I can't access it any more either. I found it quite useful when I was waiting for a response to a thread, because you can see if anyone is replying to that thread - so sometimes I'd wait around a bit longer to read their response before logging out.

Basically it allowed you to see what everyone was doing - what threads they were reading, or maybe using the PM system, creating a new thread etc etc.

But you can only see those people who elect to be 'visible' while logged in - otherwise they show up as guests.

 

[Plannerbabs]

Ok, I take it back then, I can't see a darn thing in here. Thought we were referring to the bottom of the Forums home page. But it could just be all the early eggnog I've had this weekend......

 

[steveanne]

Too much lacrosse?

Um.... No.... I uh....

How about those Bears huh?

 

[Dan]

I'll return the feature ... if you aren't concerned with feeling that your privacy might be compromised by havig others know what you're doing while you're online.

I cut the feature off for regular users because of privacy issues (most vBulletin sites have the feature disabled for regular users), and because accessing it strains MySQL with more queries, which could slow down the site a little bit.

 

[Rem]

I'll return the feature ... if you aren't concerned with feeling that your privacy might be compromised...

What is this privacy of which you speak?

 

[Budgie]

I gave up privacy and modesty long ago.

 

[SkeLeton]

For those concerned about their privacy... there's always the invisible mode.