 -boRg- wrote:
The active users has been sorted out for the next version so the same member is not listed twice. The code was there just in the wrong place. |
wistex wrote:
BTW, I don't see active users in the demo. |
Mikael wrote:
I think that the active user function has been sorted out in ver 7.5 since it not worked any good at all. Guest's and some users were displaying several times in the same list... AOL-users couldn't be identified etc... |
"Sorted out" in the U.S. means fixed. I thought he was saying that he fixed that feature so it works now. :-?
And AOL users can be identified. Just track usernames instead of IP addresses. That's what all the other forum software does. The only time you track IP addresses is for guests. Just use the same method of tracking that everyone else does and it should work.
When people login, the forum knows who they are by their username. When someone loads a page, just check what username is logged on and update the active users table. No more duplicates. It doesn't matter if they are using AOL or not anymore. It doesn't matter if there are 20 people behind a firewall. It tracks them all by their username (i.e. who is logged on at the time the page loads).
If the page is smart enough to detect who is logged on by username, then it is smart enough to count them by username.
He just needed to change HOW he counts users. Use IP addresses for Guests, use Usernames for logged in users. Using IP addresses for everything is what is screwing up the count.
That's probably what he did in version 7.5 to fix the problem.
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