All this time, and we don't have any widget to display how many users are currently online, who they are, or other stuff like that? Other forums have that sort of thing, but we don't. And it's strange, because that seems like it'd be pretty useful!
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That's all the input I have to offer.There are ways to add a "who is online" list but it comes with some downsides.
- It takes up resources which might not be that bad right now but if we were more people again, it could start to cause lags and other issues, potentially.
(with just one user i can not do much testing for that.)
- The two working plugins I found have the ability to let the user decide if he shows up on that list or not, which, by experience from Skype and Slack group, is something people tend to use. (Nothing against lurking but setting yourself to offline in a messenger is rather pointless. And it would make the feature on the forums pointless as well.)
So, because of that I think that an online-list is rather unnecessary; some people would just set themselves to 'invisible' and at the same time it would use up resources that could be used for other things.
I don't see much use for it to justify the work you have to put into it as well. If that thing is added, the Forums style sheet has to be updated too.
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