| Discussionator | I'd like to know how are the online users detected – BorgClown, 2008-09-08 at 21:36:52 (4 comments) |
 | On 2008-09-08 at 21:37:22, BorgClown wrote... Is the lurking completely eliminated here? |
 | On 2008-09-08 at 21:38:50, Lee J Haywood wrote... Most requests involve an initial authentication check, and that touches a file with your user name. The directory containing those files is used to find out the last time for each user. |
| On 2008-09-08 at 21:40:48, BorgClown wrote... So if I just leave the page open and go to bed, I'm still online all night? |
| On 2008-09-08 at 22:09:26, Lee J Haywood wrote... Yes, I was thinking of having an "idle" indication - although that means getting the last-updated date/time from the database. |